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 15, 2026 · 9:32 AM

Poetiq shows model orchestration can beat bigger coding models

Poetiq says its Meta-System lifted multiple models on LiveCodeBench Pro without fine-tuning or privileged access. The startup's claim points to a larger question for AI entrepreneurs: whether orchestration layers can become a defensible business around frontier models.

Janet Harrison · May 15, 2026 · 7:07 AM

Clawdmeter makes Claude Code usage visible on the desk

Clawdmeter turns Claude Code usage into a tiny desktop dashboard with charts and pixel-art animations. The project shows how AI coding consumption is becoming something developers and startups want to measure, manage and sometimes display.

Janet Harrison · May 15, 2026 · 4:44 AM

Anthropic says the AI race now turns on chips and enforcement

Anthropic's new 2028 AI leadership paper frames the U.S.-China AI race as a fight over chips, data-center access and model distillation. The warning is partly national-security realism and partly a policy push that would strengthen frontier labs already at the center of the market.

Janet Harrison · May 15, 2026 · 2:19 AM

Nvidia puts Kimi K2.6 on a faster path to Blackwell inference

Nvidia posted Kimi-K2.6-NVFP4 on May 13, 2026, giving Moonshot AI's 1T-parameter Kimi K2.6 a Blackwell-ready inference package. The release shows how open frontier-scale models are moving from impressive downloads toward deployable infrastructure choices for startups.

Janet Harrison · May 14, 2026 · 11:31 PM

Meta Is Showing How AI Spending Can Break a Happy Workforce

Meta is preparing to cut roughly 8,000 jobs while reporting nearly $27 billion in quarterly profit and raising its 2026 AI capex plans. The story shows how AI infrastructure is becoming a direct competitor for headcount, and why startups may have a new opening in the talent market.

Janet Harrison · May 14, 2026 · 9:07 PM

Khosla Ventures backs Ian Crosby's AI bookkeeping comeback

Synthetic raised $10 million from Khosla Ventures to build autonomous AI bookkeeping for software startups. Ian Crosby's Bench history gives the company unusual credibility, but also raises the trust bar after Bench's abrupt 2024 collapse.

Janet Harrison · May 14, 2026 · 6:42 PM

India is becoming the first real test of AI job disruption

India's IT sector is still growing, but AI agents are putting pressure on the manpower-heavy outsourcing model. For founders, the shift creates both talent-market risk and a chance to build with smaller, more automated teams.

Janet Harrison · May 14, 2026 · 4:19 PM

Bitcoin holders are turning scarcity into a market structure issue

Long-term Bitcoin conviction buyers have accumulated nearly 4 million BTC since the end of 2025, according to BitGo data cited by Bitfinex. The bigger issue is whether ETF demand, corporate treasuries and borrowing products are making liquid Bitcoin supply harder to access.

Janet Harrison · May 14, 2026 · 1:07 PM

Coinbase backs the CLARITY Act as crypto rules reach markup.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is now backing a Senate markup of the CLARITY Act after lawmakers reached a compromise on stablecoin rewards. The bill could shape how crypto startups, exchanges, stablecoin issuers and DeFi teams operate in the United States.

Janet Harrison · May 14, 2026 · 10:18 AM

Americans now prefer nearby nuclear plants to AI data centers

New Gallup data shows Americans are more opposed to local AI data centers than nearby nuclear power plants. The finding turns AI infrastructure into a local trust and permitting problem, not just a technology spending race.

Janet Harrison · May 14, 2026 · 5:54 AM

Microsoft is turning Edge into the default layer for AI browsing

Microsoft's May 13 Edge update moves Copilot deeper into desktop and mobile browsing with tab reasoning, history context, Journeys, Voice, Vision and agentic browsing features. The move gives Microsoft a distribution advantage over AI browser startups, but it also raises sharper questions about consent, privacy and control.

Janet Harrison · May 14, 2026 · 3:06 AM

AI coding mandates are creating a trust problem for software startups

Developers are adopting AI coding tools quickly, but trust in the output is falling. That creates a real ROI problem for startups selling coding agents into engineering teams already worried about review burden, bugs and hidden technical debt.

Janet Harrison · May 14, 2026 · 12:47 AM

UK Parliament probes Nigel Farage's £5m crypto gift

Nigel Farage faces parliamentary probe over £5m undeclared gift from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, risking suspension.

Janet Harrison · May 14, 2026 · 12:41 AM

LinkedIn is cutting staff while its business is still growing

LinkedIn is preparing to cut about 5% of its workforce even as revenue continues to rise. The move shows founders that profitable tech platforms are still reallocating aggressively toward infrastructure, efficiency and growth priorities.

Janet Harrison · May 13, 2026 · 10:36 PM

MARA is betting its future on power for AI data centers

MARA is using its Long Ridge acquisition to push beyond bitcoin mining and into AI data center infrastructure. The deal gives it power, land and grid access, but weak Q1 results show how much execution risk sits behind the pivot.

Janet Harrison · May 13, 2026 · 9:00 PM

TextGen turns local AI into a desktop product developers can trust

TextGen, formerly text-generation-webui, is now a no-install desktop app for local LLMs. Its latest release puts open-source local AI closer to LM Studio territory, with privacy, portability and developer usability becoming the real competition.