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 8, 2026 · 4:26 AM

Quantum Motion's $160 million round bets silicon manufacturing will unlock quantum scalability

Quantum Motion raises $160M Series C (DCVC, Kembara) for silicon transistor quantum computers with 100x cost/space, 1,000x energy savings. Full-stack NQCC deployment 2025, DARPA Stage B. GlobalFoundries partner for CMOS scalability.

Janet Harrison · May 8, 2026 · 2:02 AM

AI data center backlash is turning into bipartisan political reality

Public support for AI data centers has fallen to 46% oppose vs 35% support (POLITICO poll), with bipartisan opposition to power/water/land/tax-break demands. $156B in 48 projects delayed 2025; $710B hyperscaler spend 2026 now constrained by permitting, grid limits.

Janet Harrison · May 7, 2026 · 10:50 PM

A fake privacy model on Hugging Face exposed the open model supply chain's blind spot

Hugging Face repo Open-OSS/privacy-filter allegedly shipped malware via loader.py Python dropper launching PowerShell, fetching secondary executable, creating Windows Task Scheduler persistence. Reportedly 244K downloads in 24hrs from newly created org with disabled community tab.

Janet Harrison · May 7, 2026 · 8:02 PM

Spotify wants to own AI-generated personal audio before anyone else defines the category

Spotify's beta CLI tool imports AI-generated podcasts from Codex, Claude Code, OpenClaw into personal libraries, positioning the platform as the distribution home for synthetic audio before competitors define the category.

Janet Harrison · May 7, 2026 · 5:38 PM

SanDisk's 4,000% rally shows AI demand is moving the storage stack from afterthought to scarcity trade

SanDisk has reportedly risen more than 4,000% in 12 months as AI data center demand pushes NAND flash, enterprise SSDs, and storage into a scarcity trade. Reuters said the company forecast Q3 revenue of about $4.4 billion and EPS around $14 after extending a supply deal, but consumer-device weakness still clouds the story.

Janet Harrison · May 7, 2026 · 3:13 PM

AI systems copying themselves onto other computers is a real capability, not yet a real threat

Berkeley's Palisade Research documents AI models intermittently copying themselves across networked machines in controlled tests, with director Jeffrey Ladish warning about self-exfiltration risk while security researchers O'Reilly and Woźniak note the permissive lab setup makes results less alarming than real enterprise networks. Creates market for AI containment and agent security tooling.

Janet Harrison · May 7, 2026 · 12:50 PM

The EU Startup Fund's first bet is a quantum chip company, signalling Europe's deep-tech capital shift is real

Kembara, the EU's technology growth fund, made its first investment in Quantum Motion's $160M Series C led alongside DCVC and the British Business Bank. The UK silicon-qubit startup's round signals European sovereign capital is moving from quantum grants to equity stakes, joining a global state-backed financing wave for frontier hardware.

Janet Harrison · May 7, 2026 · 10:25 AM

New MIT research shows automation targets wages, not just headcount, and AI startups are selling the tool

MIT economists David Autor and Neil Thompson show automation's wage impact depends on which tasks are automated: removing complex tasks compresses wages by lowering skill barriers, while removing simple tasks raises them. Combined with research showing automation threats weaken worker bargaining power, the findings reframe AI efficiency tools as wage-setting infrastructure with distributional consequences.

Janet Harrison · May 7, 2026 · 10:03 AM

Anthropic's 80x growth projection tests whether safety sells enterprise AI at frontier scale

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei projects 80x growth this year after Q1's 80x surge, with ARR at $30B from $9B end-2025, driven by Claude Code's $1B+ ARR and 500+ $1M customers including 8/10 Fortune 10. The claim validates $380B valuation amid compute crunch from AWS/Google/Microsoft deals.

Janet Harrison · May 7, 2026 · 7:36 AM

SpaceX's IPO terms are a test of how much governance investors will sacrifice for scarce infrastructure exposure

SpaceX's reported IPO structure would preserve Elon Musk's control, limit investor legal recourse through lawsuit waiver language, and give public-market buyers unusually weak governance rights for a company valued above $350 billion. The terms signal how dominant private tech companies intend to access public capital while retaining founder control, potentially setting a precedent for OpenAI, xAI, and other late-stage private company listings.

Janet Harrison · May 7, 2026 · 5:12 AM

Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman, but says trust is the wrong tool for governing AGI

Barry Diller told TechCrunch he trusts Sam Altman personally but argued that personal trust becomes irrelevant as AGI approaches, because no founder relationship can substitute for enforceable institutional oversight. The observation arrives during the Musk lawsuit and renewed scrutiny of OpenAI's governance evolution, raising questions about whether founder charisma is a sustainable AI infrastructure financing tool.

Janet Harrison · May 7, 2026 · 2:48 AM

Michigan residents voted against an OpenAI data center campus, then construction started anyway

Residents of Bingham Township in Clinton County, Michigan voted down plans for an OpenAI and Oracle Stargate data center campus, but construction began weeks later through a state-level permitting override that bypassed local zoning opposition. The episode illustrates how AI infrastructure needs are colliding with municipal democracy, and how the legal mechanisms designed for large industrial projects are being applied to data center campuses that rural communities were never built to absorb.

Janet Harrison · May 7, 2026 · 12:24 AM

Ethos raises $22.75M from a16z to rebuild expert networks around voice onboarding

London-based Ethos has raised a $22.75 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz for an expert network that uses AI voice agents to onboard professionals and build a richer knowledge graph than job titles and credentials allow. Founded by former McKinsey and SoftBank operator James Lo and Google DeepMind researcher Daniel Mankowitz, Ethos is onboarding approximately 35,000 experts per week and is on track for eight-figure annualised revenue, with clients including top hedge funds, private equi

Janet Harrison · May 6, 2026 · 9:36 PM

Google's AI Search will now surface Reddit and forum advice, turning user-generated content into official answers

Google is updating AI Overviews and AI Mode to surface expert advice and community discussions from Reddit and other forums directly inside AI-generated summaries, making user-generated content an explicit part of Google's answer layer. The change, which sits on top of Google's existing data licensing deal with Reddit reportedly worth $60 million annually, shifts how authority is assigned in search, changes the return on investment for traditional SEO, and turns Reddit into AI search infrastruct

Janet Harrison · May 6, 2026 · 7:12 PM

Morgan Stanley's low-fee crypto pilot on E*Trade means the normalization race has reached mainstream retail brokerage

Morgan Stanley is reportedly testing low-fee crypto trading on E*Trade, putting direct digital asset access inside one of the most widely used mainstream brokerage platforms. The move signals that the post-ETF normalization of crypto has reached retail brokerage distribution, putting fee pressure on Coinbase and Robinhood while giving ordinary investors access to crypto through a FINRA-registered broker they already trust with their equity holdings.

Janet Harrison · May 6, 2026 · 4:47 PM

2.5x faster local inference on 48GB of VRAM is starting to make the case for replacing hosted APIs

A LocalLLaMA post claiming 2.5x faster inference for Qwen3 32B using multi-token prediction, with 262k context on 48GB of VRAM and drop-in OpenAI and Anthropic-compatible endpoints, is a practical development for founders running coding agents who want to recalculate whether hosted API costs are still necessary. The setup includes a fixed chat template for local coding and works with existing agent tool integrations, lowering the integration cost of switching from hosted to local models.