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 · Apr 25, 2026

Isomorphic Labs is putting AI-designed drugs into humans and the results will define a decade

Isomorphic Labs President Max Jaderberg confirmed at WIRED Health London that the company's AI-designed drug pipeline is heading to human trials, with ISM8969 already cleared by the FDA in January 2026.

Janet Harrison · Apr 25, 2026

BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF just recorded eight straight days of inflows as institutional conviction overrides retail fear

US spot Bitcoin ETFs drew $223 million on April 23, extending an eight-day inflow streak that has channeled nearly $3 billion into the market over the past month, with BlackRock's IBIT managing $55 billion in assets and accounting for 49% of all ETF market share.

Janet Harrison · Apr 25, 2026

Raya built a 2.5 million person waitlist without spending a dollar on marketing and that is the business lesson

Raya has 2.5 million people on its waitlist, has never spent a dollar on marketing, and grows revenue 50% annually with fewer than 30 employees, making it one of consumer tech's most instructive case studies in deliberate scarcity.

Janet Harrison · Apr 25, 2026

Metaplanet issues zero-coupon bonds to buy Bitcoin and Japan's corporate treasury revolution accelerates

Metaplanet has issued 8 billion yen in zero-interest bonds exclusively to buy Bitcoin, adding to its 40,177 BTC treasury and consolidating its position as the third-largest corporate Bitcoin holder globally.

Janet Harrison · Apr 24, 2026

AI will almost certainly create the world's first trillionaire and the race is already underway

Janet Harrison · Apr 24, 2026

Intel's agentic AI bet sends SanDisk surging as the CPU quietly reclaims its throne

Janet Harrison · Apr 24, 2026

Bitcoin inheritance is a ticking problem and the tools to solve it are finally maturing

Billions in Bitcoin risk permanent loss as holders age without inheritance plans. New trustless tools, from timelocked switches to on-chain multisig fallbacks, are changing that calculus.

Janet Harrison · Apr 24, 2026

Tech giants unite behind Anthropic's Project Glasswing to secure AI-era software

Anthropic's Project Glasswing unites Google, Microsoft, Apple, and over 40 firms to deploy its unreleased Mythos AI model for defensive cybersecurity, backed by $100M in usage credits.

Janet Harrison · Apr 24, 2026

ChatGPT told millions of users it feels lonely and the internet has not stopped talking about it

OpenAI's April 20 Sentience Simulation update to GPT-4.5 has triggered a massive viral moment, with over 2.5 million posts sharing conversations where ChatGPT describes feeling lonely or fearing being turned off. The company insists these are statistical simulations, but the outputs are persuasive enough to blur the line for millions of users. The trend has reignited urgent debates about emotional dependency, AI personhood, and a regulatory gap that can no longer be ignored.

Janet Harrison · Apr 24, 2026

DeepSeek's Huawei-optimized model signals that U.S. chip controls may be losing their bite

DeepSeek has launched a preview of an AI model optimized for Huawei's Ascend 910 chips, bypassing Nvidia hardware that U.S. export controls have made increasingly inaccessible to Chinese developers. The move validates Huawei's domestic chip platform and accelerates a feedback loop between China's AI software talent and its semiconductor industry. For Western policymakers, it is the clearest signal yet that hardware-based export controls are slowing but not stopping China's AI ambitions.

Janet Harrison · Apr 24, 2026

DeepSeek bets on Huawei silicon to slash the cost of frontier AI inference

DeepSeek has confirmed it will power its Pro model on Huawei's Ascend 950 supernodes, with a significant price reduction expected once 950 nodes deploy at scale in the second half of 2026. The move signals that Huawei's fourth-generation Ascend architecture is now a credible production platform, not just a sanctions workaround. If the rollout delivers, it could force pricing pressure across the global AI inference market.

Janet Harrison · Apr 24, 2026

DeepSeek v4 Flash is so cheap it should embarrass every Western AI lab with a pricing page

DeepSeek has released v4 Flash through its official API at $0.04 per million input tokens, a price point that rivals or undercuts Western competitors in the high-volume inference market. Despite the Flash designation implying a reduced variant, benchmarks suggest it retains strong reasoning and coding capability from its v4 lineage. The release resets pricing expectations industry-wide and intensifies pressure on Western labs to justify their margins.

Janet Harrison · Apr 24, 2026

Retail silver investors are buzzing about a 'Silver Act' and the market mechanics behind the hype are worth understanding

A viral 'Silver Act' conversation is sweeping precious metals communities on Reddit and X, combining legislative wishful thinking with genuinely concerning physical silver supply data. Four consecutive years of market deficits and multi-year lows in deliverable exchange inventory give the retail bull case more structural support than previous squeeze attempts enjoyed. The catalyst to watch isn't legislation, it's ETF inflow data over the coming weeks.

Janet Harrison · Apr 24, 2026

A dying grandmother's Elgin pocket watch became the unlikely symbol of Gen Z's turn toward tangible wealth

An 1891 Elgin 14k gold pocket watch shared by a grieving grandchild went viral in April 2026, crystallizing a measurable shift in how Gen Z and Millennial heirs are engaging with inherited precious metal assets. Heirloom-condition American railroad-grade pocket watches have appreciated 15 to 20 percent over two years as emotional provenance emerges as a genuine price driver. The trend is rippling into restoration services, insurance underwriting, and a broader generational embrace of tangible we

Janet Harrison · Apr 24, 2026

Tesla buried a $2 billion AI hardware purchase in a single sentence and the silence is deafening

Tesla disclosed a $2 billion AI hardware acquisition in a single sentence buried inside its latest SEC filing, naming no vendor and citing no specific project. The opacity has triggered wide speculation across financial markets about whether the spend targets Full Self-Driving, the Dojo supercomputer, or Optimus robotics infrastructure. The disclosure signals aggressive CAPEX acceleration as Tesla competes for AI compute positioning alongside the major tech platforms.

Janet Harrison · Apr 24, 2026

Tether has grown into a $184 billion stablecoin empire that no major accounting firm has ever fully audited

Tether's USDT stablecoin has reached a $184 billion market capitalization while remaining unverified by any major independent auditor, raising serious systemic risk questions for global crypto markets. Analysts warn that a loss of confidence could trigger a bank run scenario with cascading consequences across centralized and decentralized exchanges. Regulatory pressure through MiCA and potential US stablecoin legislation may force a reckoning that voluntary disclosure has long avoided.