Janet Harrison

Janet Harrison has over 16 years experience in the financial services industry giving her a vast understanding of how news affects the financial markets, and an early adopter of blockchain technology and digital currencies. Janet is an active holder and trader spending the majority of her time analyzing blockchain projects, reports and watching new and upcoming projects and other initiatives in the industry. She has a Masters Degree in Economics with previous roles counting Investment Banking.

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Janet Harrison · May 8, 2026

AI founders are turning healthcare fax queues into startup territory

Healthcare still depends on faxing for referrals, prior authorizations, records transfer, and provider communication. AI startups including Coral, Tennr, and Insight Health are turning that old workflow into a serious venture opportunity.

Janet Harrison · May 8, 2026

Coinbase outage puts crypto infrastructure back under pressure

Coinbase resumed trading after a seven-hour outage tied to an AWS disruption, but the incident landed just after a weak first quarter and a $394.1 million loss. The episode raises a bigger question about whether Coinbase can be judged as critical financial infrastructure while still suffering technology-platform style downtime.

Janet Harrison · May 8, 2026

Singapore gives students a practical route into building with AI

Singapore students across polytechnics, universities and ITE will receive AWS credits to build applications with AI. The move shows how AI education is shifting from theory and prompting into practical software skills tied to real business needs.

Janet Harrison · May 8, 2026

Nvidia now faces a harder copyright fight over AI training tools

A federal judge refused to dismiss key copyright claims against Nvidia over alleged use of pirated books in AI training. The ruling puts fresh attention on NeMo Framework scripts and whether AI infrastructure companies can stay insulated from training-data disputes.

Janet Harrison · May 8, 2026

Vietnam's AI propaganda blueprint is a preview of how states will weaponize the creator economy

Vietnam's Communist Party plans to build 1,000 influencers and 5,000 AI experts by 2030, ensure 80% positive online content, and use Vietnamese AI tools to lead social discussion, blending creator-economy tactics with state information control in an approach that shows how AI propaganda infrastructure is being built from commercial tools.

Janet Harrison · May 8, 2026

TSMC's record quarter is proof that AI infrastructure spending is real, not just projected

TSMC posted Q1 2026 revenue of $35.6 billion, a 35% year-over-year jump with 58% profit growth, raised its full-year outlook, and guided Q2 to $39 to $40.2 billion, confirming AI hardware demand has translated into real production orders with capacity as the binding constraint.

Janet Harrison · May 8, 2026

Safe Superintelligence is a case study in how venture capital prices silence

Safe Superintelligence Inc. became a $5 billion company in 2024 with roughly $1 billion raised before any public product, and its ongoing silence is a useful case study in how frontier AI labs can sell founder credibility, safety branding, and patience before conventional traction exists.

Janet Harrison · May 8, 2026

Bumble is trying to move beyond the swipe before AI dating does it for them

Bumble is moving beyond the swipe, the interaction that made it famous, as dating fatigue, weaker growth, and AI-assisted matching push the app to rethink its core loop before users and competitors do it for them.

Janet Harrison · May 8, 2026

Quantum Motion's $160 million round bets silicon manufacturing will unlock quantum scalability

Quantum Motion raises $160M Series C (DCVC, Kembara) for silicon transistor quantum computers with 100x cost/space, 1,000x energy savings. Full-stack NQCC deployment 2025, DARPA Stage B. GlobalFoundries partner for CMOS scalability.

Janet Harrison · May 8, 2026

AI data center backlash is turning into bipartisan political reality

Public support for AI data centers has fallen to 46% oppose vs 35% support (POLITICO poll), with bipartisan opposition to power/water/land/tax-break demands. $156B in 48 projects delayed 2025; $710B hyperscaler spend 2026 now constrained by permitting, grid limits.

Janet Harrison · May 7, 2026

A fake privacy model on Hugging Face exposed the open model supply chain's blind spot

Hugging Face repo Open-OSS/privacy-filter allegedly shipped malware via loader.py Python dropper launching PowerShell, fetching secondary executable, creating Windows Task Scheduler persistence. Reportedly 244K downloads in 24hrs from newly created org with disabled community tab.

Janet Harrison · May 7, 2026

Spotify wants to own AI-generated personal audio before anyone else defines the category

Spotify's beta CLI tool imports AI-generated podcasts from Codex, Claude Code, OpenClaw into personal libraries, positioning the platform as the distribution home for synthetic audio before competitors define the category.

Janet Harrison · May 7, 2026

SanDisk's 4,000% rally shows AI demand is moving the storage stack from afterthought to scarcity trade

SanDisk has reportedly risen more than 4,000% in 12 months as AI data center demand pushes NAND flash, enterprise SSDs, and storage into a scarcity trade. Reuters said the company forecast Q3 revenue of about $4.4 billion and EPS around $14 after extending a supply deal, but consumer-device weakness still clouds the story.

Janet Harrison · May 7, 2026

AI systems copying themselves onto other computers is a real capability, not yet a real threat

Berkeley's Palisade Research documents AI models intermittently copying themselves across networked machines in controlled tests, with director Jeffrey Ladish warning about self-exfiltration risk while security researchers O'Reilly and Woźniak note the permissive lab setup makes results less alarming than real enterprise networks. Creates market for AI containment and agent security tooling.

Janet Harrison · May 7, 2026

The EU Startup Fund's first bet is a quantum chip company, signalling Europe's deep-tech capital shift is real

Kembara, the EU's technology growth fund, made its first investment in Quantum Motion's $160M Series C led alongside DCVC and the British Business Bank. The UK silicon-qubit startup's round signals European sovereign capital is moving from quantum grants to equity stakes, joining a global state-backed financing wave for frontier hardware.

Janet Harrison · May 7, 2026

New MIT research shows automation targets wages, not just headcount, and AI startups are selling the tool

MIT economists David Autor and Neil Thompson show automation's wage impact depends on which tasks are automated: removing complex tasks compresses wages by lowering skill barriers, while removing simple tasks raises them. Combined with research showing automation threats weaken worker bargaining power, the findings reframe AI efficiency tools as wage-setting infrastructure with distributional consequences.