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 18, 2026 · 10:46 PM

EU AI Act enforcement deadline forces startups to rewire agent design

The EU AI Act's major enforcement tranche arrives in August 2026, forcing agent builders to document risks, add human oversight, and disclose capabilities or face large fines; legal updates also suggest some targeted deadline shifts, but product teams should act now.

Janet Harrison · May 18, 2026 · 3:49 PM

Standard Chartered brings Zodia Custody onto its balance sheet, signalling banks will own crypto services

Standard Chartered is migrating core custody from Zodia onto its balance sheet, signalling a shift from arm's‑length experimentation to banks owning crypto custody as a core service, which should reduce onboarding friction for institutional crypto clients and accelerate custody‑linked products.

Janet Harrison · May 18, 2026 · 1:54 PM

Intesa Sanpaolo's crypto bet is getting bigger and more varied

Intesa Sanpaolo has more than doubled its crypto exposure to about $235 million by March 31, adding Ethereum, XRP, and its first crypto derivatives trade.

Janet Harrison · May 18, 2026 · 1:20 PM

AMD's tiny AI PC points to a more local future for model inference

AMD is betting that the next frontier of AI will run locally, not in the cloud, and its new Ryzen AI Max platform is built to make that case with 128GB of unified memory and support for very large models.

Janet Harrison · May 18, 2026 · 8:09 AM

MiniPlasma shows how one Windows patch can fail for years

MiniPlasma is no longer just a research curiosity. With working exploit code in the wild, Windows privilege escalation has become an immediate operational risk for startups and enterprises.

Janet Harrison · May 18, 2026 · 3:33 AM

AI license plate readers are becoming a trust crisis for local governments

AI license plate readers are triggering a backlash that is forcing local governments to confront a new reality: surveillance tech can be technically effective and politically unsustainable at the same time.

Janet Harrison · May 18, 2026 · 12:07 AM

Yum Brands is putting Nvidia AI into 500 restaurants

Yum Brands is rolling out Nvidia-powered AI across 500 restaurants, turning a pilot into one of the clearest large-scale deployments in quick-service dining.

Janet Harrison · May 17, 2026 · 9:40 PM

OpenAI's talk show deal shows human content is becoming AI's new premium asset

OpenAI's acquisition of TBPN suggests AI companies are now paying premium prices for human voice, trust, and content IP, and that creates a new startup category for founders building at the intersection of media and AI.

Janet Harrison · May 17, 2026 · 7:27 PM

Apple iOS 27 brings long awaited Siri AI overhaul this fall

After two years of delays and broken promises, Apple is finally shipping the AI powered Siri it showed off at WWDC 2024. The fall iOS 27 release fundamentally changes how you interact with your iPhone.

Janet Harrison · May 17, 2026 · 7:04 PM

AI model drift is already becoming a liability problem for startups

A viral persona story points to a deeper problem: when LLMs converge on the same output, the result can be easier to copy, easier to abuse, and harder to defend. For startups, that is not a curiosity, it is a liability signal.

Janet Harrison · May 17, 2026 · 4:50 PM

Florida limits data centers to protect residents from AI's utility bill

Florida's new law forces data centers to internalize electricity and water costs and preserves local control over siting, creating both compliance risks and product opportunities for AI startups.

Janet Harrison · May 17, 2026 · 1:46 PM

NRG is betting AI's power problem will rewrite utility economics

NRG Energy is betting that the next AI bottleneck is not chips but power, using BYOP and virtual power plants to help data centers scale without crushing the grid.

Janet Harrison · May 17, 2026 · 11:04 AM

Samsung's looming strike is a warning for the AI supply chain

Samsung's looming strike is a reminder that AI compute risk now runs through labor stability, not just chip shortages. For startups, supply-chain resilience is becoming a core part of runway management.

Janet Harrison · May 17, 2026 · 6:28 AM

Binance's 55x Claim Changes The Compliance Playbook For Crypto Startups

Binance Research says about 11 percent of illicit crypto flows were seized in 2025, roughly 55 times the fiat recovery rate. For founders and compliance startups that should be ammunition in regulatory and banking conversations, provided the figures are presented with local context and clear methodology.

Janet Harrison · May 17, 2026 · 3:01 AM

Anthropic's AI just helped crack Apple's M5 security wall

Researchers say Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview helped uncover a root-level macOS exploit on Apple's M5 chip, a sign that AI is now accelerating zero-day discovery in consumer hardware.

Janet Harrison · May 17, 2026 · 12:43 AM

AI's compute boom is choking PC builders and the startups that rely on them

PC Gamer's survey that 60 percent of gamers will delay PC builds highlights a broader shift: hyperscaler AI demand is inflating memory and GPU prices, choking the secondhand and consumer markets that feed startups and indie developers.