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 21, 2026 · 4:23 PM

Ethereum wants you to know what you're signing before you lose everything

The Ethereum Foundation's Clear Signing standard, launched May 12, 2026, replaces unreadable hex transaction prompts with plain-language descriptions backed by cryptographic attestations. Built on ERC-7730 and ERC-8176, and supported by Ledger, Trezor, MetaMask, and Fireblocks, the initiative is the blockchain industry's most structured response yet to blind-signing exploits like the $1.5 billion Bybit hack.

Janet Harrison · Jun 21, 2026 · 11:57 AM

Japan's chip equipment giants are losing China and betting on AI to fill the gap

Japan's major chip equipment makers, including Tokyo Electron, Screen Holdings, and Advantest, are reporting a roughly 10% drop in China-sourced revenue as export controls imposed in mid-2023 bite into order books. Tokyo Electron's China share has fallen from 47% to under 27% of total sales, and the company is betting on AI-driven demand to fill the gap. But the structural question of whether Western and Southeast Asian fabs can replace China's volume remains unanswered.

Janet Harrison · Jun 21, 2026 · 7:31 AM

Anthropic faces a class action lawsuit accusing it of selling Claude Max subscribers far less than advertised

Janet Harrison · Jun 21, 2026 · 6:52 AM

AI accounting automation will cut your bookkeeping bill in half

AI accounting automation has matured to the point where most small businesses are overpaying for bookkeeping work that software now handles at a fraction of the cost. The tools exist today, they work, and founders who've made the switch are spending $135 a month instead of $499. Here's how to do it without losing the oversight that actually matters.

Janet Harrison · Jun 21, 2026 · 6:42 AM

How to Build an AI Agent for Your Business Without Writing Code

How to build an AI agent for your business is no longer a question that requires an engineering hire or a six-figure budget. Using no-code platforms like Relevance AI, Make.com, and Voiceflow, non-technical founders can deploy working agents in days. The gap between the hype and a real working product is smaller than most teams think.

Janet Harrison · Jun 21, 2026 · 6:15 AM

A USB stick is all it takes to empty your crypto wallet right now

Microsoft detailed an active malware campaign called CryptoBandits that spreads through infected USB drives, silently replaces crypto wallet addresses in your clipboard every 500 milliseconds, and routes stolen data through a bundled Tor client to evade detection. Active since February 2026 and targeting Bitcoin, Tron, and Monero, the campaign is a reminder that physical attack surfaces are still the most underdefended part of most crypto security setups.

Janet Harrison · Jun 20, 2026 · 11:55 PM

The founder who built AI companions is now warning you that the jobs protests are coming

Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika and new AI venture Wabi, told Platformer's Casey Newton that the fear of AI-driven job losses is 'super justified' and she's stopped hiring junior engineers entirely. Her warning is harder to dismiss than most: she's an AI optimist who has already changed her own hiring practices, calling junior hires 'completely unsustainable' as AI gives each employee up to 1,000x leverage.

Janet Harrison · Jun 20, 2026 · 4:25 PM

Washington just showed Europe how quickly an AI dependency can become a crisis

When Washington forced Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from foreign users on June 12, European hospitals and banks lost access to embedded AI tools without warning. The episode exposed a structural gap: Europe holds just 5% of global AI compute against the US's 70-80%, and analysts say closing it would require €100 billion annually through 2031, a figure that dwarfs every current EU commitment.

Janet Harrison · Jun 20, 2026 · 11:58 AM

Ledn lets gold holders borrow against tokenized vaults without selling a single ounce

Ledn has added Tether Gold (XAUT) as loan collateral, letting holders of tokenized physical gold borrow stablecoins without selling their position. The launch, available in over 100 countries as of June 18, extends Ledn's no-rehypothecation lending model beyond Bitcoin into the growing real-world asset market.

Janet Harrison · Jun 20, 2026 · 7:32 AM

Gallup data shows tech workers who skip AI face triple the odds of being laid off

Gallup's February 2026 survey of more than 23,000 US workers found that tech employees who rarely use AI face an 18% predicted probability of being laid off, triple the 6% risk for regular AI users , a gap that holds even after controlling for age, education, and sector. For startups, the data reframes AI adoption as a hiring signal and a retention lever, not just a productivity story.

Janet Harrison · Jun 20, 2026 · 2:29 AM

The Fortune 500 just printed its most profitable year ever while shedding 301,000 jobs

Janet Harrison · Jun 19, 2026 · 10:40 PM

Midas wants to become Turkey's financial super-app after raising the country's biggest-ever fintech round

Midas, the Turkish retail investment app that raised an $80 million Series B in August 2025 and now serves 3.5 million users, is planning an expansion into payment systems, Bloomberg reported on June 19. The move would take the company from a focused trading platform toward a full financial super-app, following a playbook used by Nubank and Revolut in other emerging markets.

Janet Harrison · Jun 19, 2026 · 6:52 PM

OpenAI is racing to go public while its CEO openly admits he doesn't want to

OpenAI filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC on June 8, 2026, targeting a September listing at over $1 trillion in valuation, even as CEO Sam Altman describes running a public company as '0% exciting.' With $14 billion in projected 2026 losses, ChatGPT's market share falling below 50% for the first time, and Anthropic overtaking OpenAI in enterprise adoption, the IPO math is brutal and the timing uncomfortable. The tension between financial necessity and executive ambivalence will shape how Wall

Janet Harrison · Jun 19, 2026 · 3:04 PM

Barret Zoph's exit from OpenAI after five months exposes the costs of a revolving door at a critical commercial moment

Barret Zoph has left OpenAI after five months as head of enterprise AI sales, his second departure from the company and a third act to a saga that began with his firing from Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab for alleged unethical conduct. The exit lands as enterprise revenue accounts for more than 40% of OpenAI's total business, raising real questions about whether serial leadership churn can coexist with the stability enterprise customers expect.

Janet Harrison · Jun 19, 2026 · 10:38 AM

Hyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank exits for $325 million

Hyundai Motor Group is acquiring SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, completing its full ownership of the robotics company. The deal closes as Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot enters commercial deployment and the broader humanoid race intensifies against Tesla Optimus and Figure AI. SoftBank exits to redeploy capital toward its $41 billion OpenAI bet and AI infrastructure.

Janet Harrison · Jun 19, 2026 · 6:50 AM

Congress wants to put a GPS tracker on every Nvidia chip that leaves the country

The Chip Security Act, which would require GPS-style location tracking on exported advanced AI chips, passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee 42-0 and has gained formal support from a coalition of shipment-tracking companies. The bill, introduced by Reps. Huizenga and Foster, is a direct response to documented smuggling networks routing Nvidia chips to China via shell companies and Southeast Asian intermediaries. The semiconductor lobby opposes it, but the unanimous committee vote signals the