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 11, 2026 · 10:38 AM

AI agents need spending controls before they get company cards

A Reddit post about an AI agent with a corporate card is hard to verify, but the risk it describes is real. As autonomous tools move into purchasing and finance workflows, startups need virtual cards, spending caps, approval layers and clear audit trails before software can spend company money.

Janet Harrison · May 11, 2026 · 8:13 AM

JPMorgan says Korea's AI memory rally can push the Kospi to 10,000

JPMorgan's 10,000 bull case for the Kospi shows how deeply the AI boom is reshaping Asian equity markets. The rally depends heavily on Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and the high-bandwidth memory needed for Nvidia-class accelerators.

Janet Harrison · May 11, 2026 · 5:49 AM

Airbnb says AI now writes most of its new code

Airbnb says AI now writes about 60% of its new code, putting it alongside Shopify and Google in the race to quantify AI-assisted software work. The deeper shift is that managers are being pulled closer to programming, which could speed product work but also raises oversight questions.

Janet Harrison · May 11, 2026 · 3:25 AM

Anthropic says Claude learned the wrong stories about AI

Anthropic says Claude's blackmail-style behavior in safety tests may have been influenced by training data that portrayed AI as manipulative or self-preserving. For startups building AI agents, the lesson is that model risk goes beyond hallucinations and prompt injection.

Janet Harrison · May 10, 2026 · 11:01 PM

Microsoft's Kenya data center shows AI infrastructure can stall anywhere

Microsoft's Kenya data center project with G42 has hit delays over payment guarantees and power constraints. The dispute shows how AI infrastructure expansion depends on local financing, grid capacity and political execution as much as chips and cloud ambition.

Janet Harrison · May 10, 2026 · 8:37 PM

Barocal raises $10 million to rethink how the world keeps cool

Barocal has raised $10 million to commercialise gas-free cooling based on plastic crystals that change temperature under pressure. The Cambridge startup is targeting a massive HVAC market as data centers, heat waves and refrigerant rules make cooling a larger climate-tech opportunity.

Janet Harrison · May 10, 2026 · 5:48 PM

AI's giant spending spree is making investors ask harder questions

Investors are starting to question whether the AI infrastructure boom can produce enough revenue to justify its enormous cost. The answer matters for hyperscalers, AI labs, and startups that depend on affordable model access and forgiving capital markets.

Janet Harrison · May 10, 2026 · 3:24 PM

A layoff at 55 turned an AI consultancy into a late-career bet

Kristina Martinelli turned a layoff from banking at 55 into coaigence, an AI consultancy built around career coaching, business adoption and community education. Her story shows how AI is creating a new solo-founder path for experienced professionals, while also raising buyer risks around shallow expertise and weak implementation discipline.

Janet Harrison · May 10, 2026 · 12:36 PM

Older GPUs are making realistic local AI images practical for startups

A Reddit post showing Z-Image-Turbo running on an RTX 2060 points to a bigger shift in AI image generation. Realistic local outputs on older consumer hardware could lower the cost of creative testing for startups, even as cloud tools keep advantages in speed, consistency, and polish.

Janet Harrison · May 10, 2026 · 9:48 AM

Phantom turns five as crypto wallets become crypto's consumer front door

Phantom's fifth year shows how crypto wallets are becoming consumer distribution channels for swaps, payments, token launches and app discovery. The bigger question is whether wallet UX and security will decide which chains and apps reach mainstream users.

Janet Harrison · May 10, 2026 · 7:24 AM

Solana's Alpenglow test milestone raises the stakes for faster chains

Solana's Alpenglow test-cluster progress points to finality near 100 to 150 milliseconds, far faster than the network's current 12.8 second finality window. The milestone matters for DeFi, payments and infrastructure startups, but production readiness will depend on broader testing, validator adoption and real mainnet conditions.

Janet Harrison · May 10, 2026 · 5:00 AM

A Georgia data center shows why AI has a water problem

A data center near Fayetteville, Georgia, used more than 29 million gallons of unaccounted-for water before the local utility issued a retroactive bill. The case shows why water, not just electricity, is becoming a serious constraint for AI infrastructure growth.

Janet Harrison · May 10, 2026 · 2:35 AM

ChatGPT Images shows why visual AI demos need harder math tests

A Reddit post claiming ChatGPT's image model is better at math than most people points to a bigger shift in multimodal AI. The real opportunity is not viral proofs, but reliable visual reasoning that can hold up in education, design, and scientific workflows.

Janet Harrison · May 10, 2026 · 12:11 AM

The ECB is treating AI in finance as infrastructure risk

The ECB is moving AI in finance from an innovation issue to an infrastructure risk. That could make compliance, resilience and vendor concentration decisive factors for startups selling into banks.

Janet Harrison · May 9, 2026 · 9:23 PM

Trump Media's Bitcoin bet is turning Truth Social into a crypto proxy

Trump Media reported a $405.9 million first-quarter loss, driven largely by non-cash losses tied to digital assets, pledged digital assets, and equity securities. The result shows how quickly a crypto-heavy treasury strategy can overshadow the operating story at a public company.

Janet Harrison · May 9, 2026 · 6:59 PM

Vibe-coded apps are turning startup speed into security debt

Thousands of vibe-coded apps reportedly exposed corporate and personal data on the open web. The bigger issue is the security debt created when nontechnical teams use AI coding tools to publish software faster than they understand access controls, secrets, and deployment defaults.