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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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Amazon commits $25 billion more to Anthropic in a bet that could reshape the cloud and chip landscape
Janet Harrison · Apr 21, 2026
Amazon commits $25 billion more to Anthropic in a bet that could reshape the cloud and chip landscape
Amazon Web Services has committed up to $25 billion in additional investment in Anthropic, bringing total capital from Amazon to approximately $29 billion. The deal makes AWS Anthropic's primary cloud provider and commits the startup to training on Amazon's own Trainium and Inferentia chips, a direct challenge to Nvidia's dominance in AI compute. The funding values Anthropic above $60 billion, making it the highest-valued independent AI startup.
The viral essay forcing crypto investors to confront their own psychology instead of the price
Janet Harrison · Apr 21, 2026
The viral essay forcing crypto investors to confront their own psychology instead of the price
A viral essay from pseudonymous analyst Satoshi's Disciple has shifted the crypto narrative from price action to investor psychology, sparking a debate about maturity versus speculation. With data showing stable supply metrics and renewed accumulation by smaller holders, the market is seeing a cultural pivot from 'get rich quick' schemes to long-term holding strategies.
OpenAI launches GPT-Image-2 with near-perfect text rendering and twice the speed of its predecessor
Janet Harrison · Apr 21, 2026
OpenAI launches GPT-Image-2 with near-perfect text rendering and twice the speed of its predecessor
OpenAI has launched GPT-Image-2 with a 99% typography accuracy rate and generation speeds twice those of its predecessor, initially available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Enterprise subscribers with API access following in May 2026. The model's reliable text rendering capability opens commercial use cases in advertising and design that previous AI image tools could not credibly serve. The release puts OpenAI directly against Midjourney and Stability AI in the professional market, backed by new wat
Silicon Valley keeps building for itself and calling it innovation
Janet Harrison · Apr 21, 2026
Silicon Valley keeps building for itself and calling it innovation
A coordinated backlash is targeting NFTs, the metaverse, and generative AI with a single thesis: Silicon Valley has been building for itself. From Meta's $13.7 billion quarterly loss on Reality Labs to the rapid abandonment of consumer AI tools, the evidence is mounting that the industry's celebrated investment cycles solved problems ordinary people never had. Venture capital appears to be listening, with a visible shift toward hard tech and away from hype-dependent consumer applications.
The open-source AI ecosystem keeps treating llama.cpp like a second-class citizen and developers are tired of it
Janet Harrison · Apr 21, 2026
The open-source AI ecosystem keeps treating llama.cpp like a second-class citizen and developers are tired of it
Despite becoming a cornerstone of local AI deployment since its 2023 release, llama.cpp receives bolt-on framework support rather than genuine first-class integration from most major OSS tools. As privacy requirements and cost pressures accelerate the shift toward on-device inference, that gap is increasingly a liability for the ecosystem. Developers building local-first tooling with native llama.cpp support may find themselves ahead of a significant market shift.
The AGI race has no finish line and everyone is arguing about where it starts
Janet Harrison · Apr 20, 2026
The AGI race has no finish line and everyone is arguing about where it starts
The AGI debate has intensified in April 2026 as leading AI laboratories escalate capability claims while researchers dispute the definitions being used. With OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and others signaling proximity to general intelligence thresholds, the conversation carries real consequences for investors, regulators, and geopolitical competition, even as scientific consensus remains elusive.
Silver is testing a 47-year ceiling that has broken every bull run before this one
Janet Harrison · Apr 20, 2026
Silver is testing a 47-year ceiling that has broken every bull run before this one
Silver prices in 2026 have pushed closer to the $50 per troy ounce all-time nominal high than at any point since 2011, testing a ceiling that has held for 47 years. Unlike the Hunt brothers corner of 1980 or the post-financial-crisis run of 2011, the current rally is driven by structural industrial demand from solar manufacturing, a tightening physical supply picture, and gold-to-silver ratio compression. Whether the level breaks or holds, the outcome will carry significant implications for prec
Developers are stress-testing Qwen3's quantized MoE model on 32GB Apple Silicon Macs to see if local AI coding is finally viable
Janet Harrison · Apr 20, 2026
Developers are stress-testing Qwen3's quantized MoE model on 32GB Apple Silicon Macs to see if local AI coding is finally viable
Alibaba's Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, quantized by Unsloth for 32GB Apple Silicon Macs, is being tested in agentic coding environments like opencode and Claude Code. Early community results show the model handles focused tasks well but struggles with long-context, multi-step workflows. For developers weighing API costs against local inference quality, the tradeoff is real but not yet clean.
A Wall Street Journal op-ed argues the US should champion open-source AI to outmaneuver China
Janet Harrison · Apr 20, 2026
A Wall Street Journal op-ed argues the US should champion open-source AI to outmaneuver China
A Wall Street Journal op-ed published in mid-April 2026 argues the US should pivot toward open-source AI to counter China's growing global influence, challenging Washington's current export-control-heavy Diffusion Strategy. The piece contends that while closed-source restrictions slow military access, they also isolate US firms from global talent and developer ecosystems that China is rapidly capturing. A shift in policy would reshape AI market valuations significantly, benefiting Meta and Mistr
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