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 · Jun 3, 2026

Delta Electronics says AI data centers now need power as much as chips

Delta Electronics is turning the AI infrastructure boom into a power and cooling story. Its COMPUTEX 2026 launch shows how the bottleneck is shifting from GPUs alone to the physical systems needed to deploy AI capacity at scale.

Janet Harrison · Jun 3, 2026

PaXini is testing Hong Kong's appetite for China's robotics boom

BYD-backed PaXini is reportedly exploring a Hong Kong IPO after raising more than 1 billion yuan at a valuation above 10 billion yuan. The listing would test whether public investors see durable value in tactile sensors, not just humanoid robot makers.

Janet Harrison · Jun 3, 2026

Walmart’s OnePay is testing whether fintech needs stores to scale

OnePay has doubled to 6 million monthly active users and about $50 billion in annualized payments. Walmart’s retail reach gives it a customer acquisition advantage that standalone fintech apps have struggled to match.

Janet Harrison · Jun 3, 2026

Fireblocks brings stablecoin checkout into payment infrastructure

Fireblocks launched Fireblocks Flow at Money20/20 Europe to help PSPs and fintechs add stablecoin acceptance with compliance and reconciliation built in. The move puts Fireblocks deeper into the payments infrastructure race with Stripe, Coinbase, Checkout.com, and other stablecoin-focused players.

Janet Harrison · Jun 3, 2026

Palo Alto Networks shows how AI is changing cybersecurity spending.

Palo Alto Networks reported fiscal Q3 revenue of $3.0 billion as customers increased spending to secure AI deployments. The bigger question is whether its CyberArk and Chronosphere deals can turn AI security into a platform-led market.

Janet Harrison · Jun 3, 2026

Google is making Android verify who is really calling.

Google is rolling out fake call detection in Phone by Google to fight spoofed contact calls and AI voice impersonation. The feature uses an encrypted device handshake, but its impact depends on adoption across devices, apps, and institutions.

Janet Harrison · Jun 2, 2026

Galaxy brings prediction market bets to Wall Street desks

Galaxy Digital launched an institutional OTC prediction markets desk with a $10 million Arca trade tied to the CLARITY Act. The move shows how event contracts are being pulled from retail crypto culture into institutional risk management.

Janet Harrison · Jun 2, 2026

ZeroDrift raises $10 million as AI compliance moves closer to models

ZeroDrift has raised $10 million in seed funding to build a real-time compliance layer for AI outputs. The round comes as enterprises prepare for stricter AI governance expectations and look for ways to make AI systems auditable before they scale.

Janet Harrison · Jun 2, 2026

SoftBank is in early talks to anchor an $800 million round for Agile Robots as the humanoid race enters its capital-intensive phase

SoftBank is in early talks to anchor an $800 million funding round for Agile Robots, the Munich-based robotics company in which the Vision Fund 2 previously led a $220 million Series C in 2021. The potential deal would rank among the largest single raises in physical AI hardware and arrives as SoftBank executes a sweeping pivot toward robotics, including a $5.375 billion acquisition of ABB Robotics and plans for a standalone AI and robotics company called Roze targeting a $100 billion valuation.

Janet Harrison · Jun 2, 2026

Nvidia's $1 trillion GPU order pipeline comes into focus as Jensen Huang puts Vera Rubin into production

Janet Harrison · Jun 2, 2026

US startups are chasing lithium beneath Europe's factory floors to outrun the continent's permitting nightmare

Janet Harrison · Jun 2, 2026

Tencent's plan to embed a full AI agent inside WeChat puts 1.4 billion users at the center of China's platform war

Tencent has launched ClawBot, an AI agent plugin inside WeChat, and is developing a native agent to orchestrate its 3.8 million mini-programs. With a full rollout targeted for Q3 2026 and over RMB 36 billion in AI capex committed this year, the move reframes WeChat as an agentic interface for 1.4 billion users and sharpens the competitive divide between Chinese embedded AI platforms and Western agent startups still solving distribution.

Janet Harrison · Jun 2, 2026

The US and China have taken a first step on AI safety rules

The United States and China have agreed to a preliminary AI safety framework after Geneva talks. The deal creates room for information sharing, joint red-teaming, and incident reporting, but leaves military AI largely unresolved.

Janet Harrison · Jun 2, 2026

Alphabet is raising $80 billion in equity to win the AI infrastructure arms race and Warren Buffett is buying in

Alphabet announced an $80 billion equity capital raise on June 1, 2026, with Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway committing $10 billion as anchor investor. The raise, one of the largest equity fundraising efforts in corporate history, will fund AI data centers and compute as Alphabet's annual capex climbs toward $190 billion. For the broader tech ecosystem, the announcement reframes AI infrastructure as a pure capital markets competition.

Janet Harrison · Jun 2, 2026

Venture capital flows into AI infrastructure as sector hits record funding highs

Venture capital flows heavily into artificial intelligence infrastructure as computing costs and hardware demand redefine traditional startup funding benchmarks.

Janet Harrison · Jun 2, 2026

Meta AI chatbot exploit allows hackers to hijack high profile Instagram accounts

Meta faces a major security crisis after hackers discovered that its automated customer support AI could be tricked into handing over full account access.