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 · Jun 18, 2026 · 6:32 PM

NextEra Energy is becoming the infrastructure layer that powers the AI economy

NextEra Energy has issued over $2.25 billion in first mortgage bonds in June and €1.75 billion in hybrid debentures earlier this year, funding a $118 billion acquisition of Dominion Energy to become the backbone of AI power infrastructure. With hyperscalers set to spend over $600 billion in capex in 2026, the utility is positioning itself as the grid behind the AI economy, and bond markets are buying it.

Janet Harrison · Jun 18, 2026 · 2:07 PM

Apple's iPhone 18 Pro will cost more because AI hyperscalers are hoarding memory chips

Tim Cook confirmed in a Wall Street Journal interview that iPhone price increases are unavoidable after DRAM prices surged up to 63 percent and NAND flash up to 75 percent, driven by AI hyperscalers consuming memory at a pace the industry can't match. TechInsights estimates the iPhone 18 Pro could cost $270 more when it launches in September. SK Hynix, Micron, and Samsung are positioned to benefit as the shortage extends well past 2027.

Janet Harrison · Jun 18, 2026 · 10:18 AM

Europe is betting its industrial AI niche can outflank the US and China where software alone cannot win

Europe's €2.5 trillion manufacturing base and 219 industrial robots per 10,000 workers make it a credible contender in physical AI. Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA's Munich AI factory and a record €1.45 billion in European robotics VC investment in 2025 signal the bet is being placed. But KUKA's warning that European factories are too slow to adopt AI, and that siloed industrial data remains the real bottleneck, points to the gap between infrastructure ambition and industrial reality.

Janet Harrison · Jun 18, 2026 · 6:30 AM

Nvidia's ENPIRE lets AI coding agents train robots to install the GPUs that run AI

Nvidia's GEAR lab, with Carnegie Mellon and UC Berkeley, published ENPIRE this week: a framework in which AI coding agents autonomously write robot training code, test it on real hardware, and iterate until policies work. An eight-robot fleet hit 99% success on tasks including GPU installation with no human supervision, but token costs scale faster than fleet size, raising real questions about the economics of autonomous robotics at industrial scale.

Janet Harrison · Jun 18, 2026 · 2:04 AM

Epic Games is handing Unreal Engine 6 the keys to generative AI and the model that wins the default slot wins the industry

Epic Games announced that Unreal Engine 6, targeting early access in late 2027, will make LLMs like Claude and Gemini core infrastructure via an open MCP foundation. The engine merger, new Verse language, and AI-assisted workflows could reshape studio headcount and hand whichever model wins the default slot a distribution prize across the majority of AAA game production.

Janet Harrison · Jun 17, 2026 · 8:21 PM

Pramaana Labs is building the proof layer that AI needs before it touches your tax return or your health

Janet Harrison · Jun 17, 2026 · 5:22 PM

How to Price Your SaaS Product Without Guessing or Copying Competitors

How to price your SaaS product is one of the most consequential decisions a founder makes, yet most spend fewer than six hours on it. This guide walks through willingness-to-pay research using the Van Westendorp framework, value metric selection, and iterative pricing tests you can run without a consultant.

Janet Harrison · Jun 17, 2026 · 3:56 PM

Databricks just showed that AI agents are a margin problem as much as a revenue opportunity

Janet Harrison · Jun 17, 2026 · 6:57 AM

HSBC puts a hard number on AI and the banking industry will have to reckon with it

HSBC expects its Google Cloud partnership to generate projects each delivering over $100 million in financial gains, making it one of the first major banks to put a hard P&L number on enterprise AI returns. With 200 new use cases targeted across wealth management and financial crime detection, and Google DeepMind engineers embedded in the bank, the disclosure sets a new benchmark that rivals like JPMorgan, Citi, and Barclays will struggle to sidestep.

Janet Harrison · Jun 17, 2026 · 1:54 AM

Robinhood cuts 290 jobs and notably refuses to blame AI for it

Robinhood is cutting 290 jobs despite record trading volumes, with CEO Vlad Tenev framing the move as organizational discipline rather than AI-driven restructuring, a deliberate break from the fintech industry's prevailing layoff narrative in 2026.

Janet Harrison · Jun 16, 2026 · 10:06 PM

Andreessen Horowitz bets $9 million that AI reliability is a category, not a feature

Probably, a new startup founded by Peter Elias, raised a $9 million seed round from Andreessen Horowitz to build a reliability layer for enterprise AI, combining a deterministic validator with full citations and audit trails to push accuracy toward the 99.99% standard common in deterministic software.

Janet Harrison · Jun 16, 2026 · 6:17 PM

Databricks is closing in on Snowflake and the numbers make that case plainly

Databricks has surpassed $5.4 billion in annualized revenue growing at 65% year over year, with its Snowflake-competing data warehousing product more than doubling in run rate. As the company eyes a $175 billion valuation in a new funding round, its IPO could become the defining enterprise software listing of 2026 and a benchmark for late-stage AI valuations.

Janet Harrison · Jun 16, 2026 · 2:57 PM

The Hormuz deal Trump announced may not hold and the world economy is not finished with this crisis

Janet Harrison · Jun 16, 2026 · 12:36 PM

BlackRock lists the first major covered-call Bitcoin ETF on Nasdaq as Goldman Sachs races to catch up

BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA) listed on Nasdaq today, June 16, targeting 15 to 25% annual yield through covered calls on Bitcoin while aiming to capture at least 70% of BTC's upside at a 0.65% fee. The launch positions BlackRock ahead of Goldman Sachs, whose rival product targets a July 1 debut, in a race to capture yield-seeking institutional and retirement-account Bitcoin buyers.

Janet Harrison · Jun 16, 2026 · 8:47 AM

Morgan Stanley opens its trillion-dollar stock plan plumbing to AI agents and Wall Street is watching

Morgan Stanley is opening its ShareWorks and Equity Edge stock plan platforms, which cover $1.2 trillion in assets, to external AI agents via the Model Context Protocol. It's the first major Wall Street bank to grant third-party autonomous software direct access to client wealth infrastructure, putting it ahead of JPMorgan and Goldman on the agentic finance frontier.

Janet Harrison · Jun 16, 2026 · 4:17 AM

China closes a quantum computing supply gap by mass-producing silicon-28

China National Nuclear Corporation's Tianjin-based research institute achieved the country's first independent, large-scale production of silicon-28 isotope at 99.99 percent purity, closing a critical materials gap in quantum computing. Previously, production capabilities were concentrated among overseas suppliers in Russia, Europe, and US-linked supply chains. The breakthrough comes as both China and Western firms race to secure independent access to the material at the heart of silicon-based q