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 5, 2026

Enter Just Tripled Its Valuation to $1.2 Billion and the Brazilian Legal AI Company's Growth Reveals Why Emerging Markets Create Different AI Moats Than Silicon Valley Expects

Enter, the São Paulo-based AI legal platform founded by Mateus Costa-Ribeiro in 2023, has raised $100 million led by Founders Fund with Sequoia Capital and Ribbit Capital, tripling its valuation to $1.2 billion in under eight months, as the company processes over 250,000 new cases annually for clients including Itaú, Santander, Mercado Livre, Nubank, and Airbnb. The round prices Enter's data advantage and founder-market fit against Brazil's 80 million active lawsuits, eight times the US caseload

Janet Harrison · May 5, 2026

Google Chrome Quietly Installed a 4 GB AI Model on User Devices and the Backlash Is About Platform Power More Than Storage Space

Recent versions of Google Chrome have been silently downloading an approximately 4 GB Gemini Nano AI model to user devices through Chrome's component update system, without explicit consent prompts or clearly visible opt-out paths, triggering community backlash that highlights a consent gap between how browser auto-updates are understood and how AI model deployments at browser scale should be disclosed. The installation affects potentially hundreds of millions of devices and raises questions abo

Janet Harrison · May 5, 2026

Norway Joins the US-Led AI Supply Chain Alliance and the Deal Turns a Nordic Nation Into a Strategic Infrastructure Node for Allied Compute

Norway has joined a US-led initiative to secure AI supply chains among trusted allied nations, formalising its role as a strategic AI infrastructure node by contributing its low-cost renewable power grid, established data center capacity, and northern climate cooling advantages to an allied compute network designed to ensure chip-to-data-center access remains within trusted geopolitical boundaries. The agreement grants Norwegian institutions preferential access to advanced Nvidia hardware under

Janet Harrison · May 5, 2026

Alphabet Just Returned to European Debt Markets With Another AI Megabond and the Cost of Capital Gap It Is Creating Matters More Than the Headline Size

Alphabet returned to the euro bond market in early May with a multi-tranche AI infrastructure financing, borrowing at investment-grade rates of approximately 3.5 to 4.5% on 10 to 20-year maturities to fund data center construction and compute capacity, continuing a financing strategy that creates a structural cost of capital gap between hyperscalers and the venture-backed AI infrastructure startups attempting to compete in the same physical layer. The deal follows Meta's concurrent $13 billion E

Janet Harrison · May 5, 2026

BitMine Has Staked $10.2 Billion Worth of ETH Through Its Own Validator Network and the Company It Is Building Looks More Like Infrastructure Than a Passive Treasury

Bitmine Immersion Technologies holds 5,180,131 ETH worth approximately $13.1 billion in total crypto and cash, with 4,362,757 ETH staked through MAVAN, its proprietary validator network, generating $297 million in annualised staking revenue at a 2.91% 7-day yield. The company controls 4.29% of Ethereum's circulating supply, has purchased ETH directly from the Ethereum Foundation in three documented OTC transactions, and is targeting a 5% supply position under the

Janet Harrison · May 5, 2026

Western Union Is Launching USDPT on Solana This Month to Replace SWIFT for Agent Settlements Across 200 Countries and the Implications Run Far Deeper Than Another Stablecoin Launch

Western Union CEO Devin McGranahan confirmed on the Q1 2026 earnings call that USDPT, a Solana-based dollar stablecoin issued by federally regulated Anchorage Digital Bank, will launch in May targeting settlement between Western Union and its 500,000 global agents as a direct SWIFT replacement, alongside a Digital Asset Network connecting crypto wallets to 360,000 cash pickup locations globally. The launch, structured through partnerships with Anchorage for issuance and Crossmint for wallet infr

Janet Harrison · May 5, 2026

Pavel Durov Just Announced That Telegram Is Replacing the TON Foundation and Becoming the Blockchain's Largest Validator, and the Decentralization Argument Deserves to Be Retired

Pavel Durov announced on May 4 that Telegram is replacing the TON Foundation as TON's operational lead and will become the blockchain's largest validator, with a Telegram-linked wallet already holding approximately 28.2 million TON and 2.2 million TON staked as a primary validator since April 30. The move formalises what on-chain data already showed: Telegram controls TON's primary distribution channel, its native wallet, its mini app payment infrastructure, and now its validator set, making the

Janet Harrison · May 5, 2026

Developers Are Asking If Codex Is the Best Coding Agent Right Now and the Answer Depends Entirely on What You Mean by Best

An r/OpenAI thread asking whether Codex is currently the best coding agent accumulated 191 points and 77 comments in five hours, prompting structured developer debate at a moment when AI coding agents are writing 135,000 GitHub commits per day. The community consensus separates three distinct tools: Codex with GPT-5.3 leads Terminal-Bench 2.0 at 77.3% and autonomous sandboxed task execution with 1,000+ tokens per second on Cerebras hardware; Claude Code with Opus 4.6 leads SWE-bench Verified at

Janet Harrison · May 5, 2026

Open-Weights Image Models Are Narrowing the Quality Gap with Paid Frontier APIs and the Founder Build-Versus-Buy Calculus Is Shifting Faster Than Most Roadmaps Assume

Artificial Analysis's image leaderboards now show FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo, Qwen Image Max 2512, and HunyuanImage 3.0 within 70-170 ELO points of GPT Image 2, with new open-weight releases entering the top tier every four to six weeks. For founders running meaningful image generation volume, FLUX.2 Pro at $0.025 per image versus self-hosted inference at fractions of a cent at scale represents a cost structure decision that compounds significantly at production volumes, and the quality gap that once ju

Janet Harrison · May 5, 2026

The EU Wants Anthropic to Test Its Banks for Mythos Vulnerabilities and That Negotiation Is Reshaping How Frontier AI Enters Regulated Markets

EU Economy Minister Valdis Dombrovskis confirmed Monday that the European Commission is in talks with Anthropic to use Mythos, its superhuman cybersecurity model, to test European banks and companies for software vulnerabilities, making it the first AI system being actively recruited by a major regulator as a financial infrastructure inspection tool. The negotiation follows ECB and Bundesbank formal assessments of bank preparedness, the UK AI Security Institute's finding that Mythos is significa

Janet Harrison · May 4, 2026

Nvidia Backs DeepInfra's $107 Million Series B and the Investment Is About More Than One Inference Startup

DeepInfra has closed a $107 million Series B with Nvidia among the investors, for an inference platform that scaled processing volume 8,000 times since 2022 by hosting open-weight models on owned Nvidia hardware at prices significantly below hyperscaler rates. The investment continues Nvidia's pattern of backing CoreWeave, Lambda, Baseten, and Anthropic, raising genuine questions about whether independent inference clouds can stay strategically neutral while taking capital from the dominant hard

Janet Harrison · May 4, 2026

llama.cpp Now Supports Multi-Token Prediction in Beta and the Implications for Local AI Tooling Are Bigger Than the PR Suggests

llama.cpp has merged beta support for multi-token prediction, allowing compatible models like DeepSeek V3 and Qwen3.5 to draft multiple tokens per forward pass without a separate draft model, with community benchmarks showing 1.5x to 2x throughput gains in real-world single-stream generation. For founders building coding tools, agents, or privacy-sensitive applications on local inference, the update is another signal that local AI economics are improving through software as fast as through hardw

Janet Harrison · May 4, 2026

OpenAI's DeployCo Is Not a Fund. It Is a Captured Distribution Machine for the Enterprise Market.

OpenAI has finalised DeployCo, a $10 billion joint venture with TPG, Bain Capital, Advent International, Brookfield, and Goanna Capital, guaranteeing PE investors a 17.5% annual return in exchange for direct access to hundreds of portfolio companies. The Palantir-style forward-deployment model gives OpenAI a captured enterprise distribution channel that bypasses normal deal cycles and creates structural switching costs no startup can easily match.

Janet Harrison · May 4, 2026

Rain Is Building the Layer That Makes Stablecoins Disappear Into Normal Payments and That Is Exactly the Point

Rain, valued at $1.95 billion after a $250 million Series C, has partnered with Mastercard to issue stablecoin-backed cards, adding a second card network to its existing Visa principal membership. With $3 billion in annualised transactions, 38x volume growth, and enterprise clients including Western Union, Rain is positioning itself as the infrastructure layer that makes stablecoin settlement invisible inside normal payments.

Janet Harrison · May 4, 2026

The Harvard emergency room AI study is most useful not as proof that machines outdiagnose doctors but as a map of where clinical AI products should actually be built

Janet Harrison · May 3, 2026

Utah's VPN liability law for age verification is the clearest sign yet that state-by-state internet compliance is becoming a startup operating cost