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 26, 2026 · 9:10 PM

Cardano's Peras and Leios upgrades target instant finality and 10,000 TPS

Cardano developers have detailed Peras and Leios, two Ouroboros upgrades that promise near-instant transaction finality and 10-65x throughput gains, addressing the network's longstanding performance gap just as Charles Hoskinson secures major institutional deals.

Janet Harrison · Apr 26, 2026 · 6:30 PM

Pocket LLM v1.5.0 brings multimodal AI to Android with no cloud required

Pocket LLM v1.5.0, released today, adds voice input, image recognition, OCR, and live camera capture to a fully offline Android inference app, marking a concrete step toward genuinely capable on-device AI for consumer hardware.

Janet Harrison · Apr 26, 2026 · 3:09 PM

Met Police Palantir AI flags hundreds of officers, sparking privacy probe

The Met's Palantir pilot flagged hundreds of officers for misconduct risks based on sickness, overtime, and absence data, prompting an internal investigation and reigniting privacy concerns over AI in policing.

Janet Harrison · Apr 26, 2026 · 3:05 PM

Swiss researchers build robots that learn complex tasks by watching humans and the implications run deeper than coffee

Researchers at EPFL in Switzerland have built robots capable of learning complex multi-step tasks by observing human actions, using a self-modeling architecture that gives the machines spatial and functional self-knowledge without task-specific programming. The advance moves embodied AI closer to practical deployment in unstructured real-world environments like homes, hospitals, and kitchens, while the team openly acknowledges the dual-use questions the technology raises as autonomous capability

Janet Harrison · Apr 26, 2026 · 1:09 PM

IRS AI audits go live, forcing tax tech to build defenses

The IRS flipped the switch on AI-driven audit selection April 16, cross-checking 2026 returns against bank, gig, and crypto data in weeks,not months,forcing fintech to race for risk simulators and compliance layers.

Janet Harrison · Apr 26, 2026 · 11:10 AM

Wisconsin forces data centers to pay their own energy bills, and other states are watching

Wisconsin's Public Service Commission unanimously ruled on April 24 that data centers must cover 100% of their energy infrastructure costs, ending the subsidy model that let AI compute growth ride on residential ratepayers' bills.

Janet Harrison · Apr 26, 2026 · 9:10 AM

OpenAI's e-Suite signals the end of bigger-is-better AI

Janet Harrison · Apr 26, 2026 · 8:37 AM

The AI price war is closing in on Anthropic and its premium model strategy is running out of room

OpenAI's sustained price cuts and DeepSeek's dramatically cheaper models are together eroding the premium pricing strategy that Anthropic built its business around, with Claude Opus now facing intense cost-performance pressure across enterprise and developer segments alike. The AI market is shifting from a quality-first to a cost-performance buying dynamic, and Anthropic's next flagship model generation may be its clearest opportunity to reestablish the differentiation its current pricing requir

Janet Harrison · Apr 26, 2026 · 7:15 AM

OpenAI drops GPT-4.5 Omni and o3, igniting the next AI pricing war

OpenAI's April 25 launch of GPT-4.5 Omni and the stable o3 model slashes inference costs by 45%, forcing competitors to match efficiency or cede enterprise ground.

Janet Harrison · Apr 26, 2026 · 4:36 AM

Blue Origin's New Glenn is grounded after its first real customer mission ended with a satellite in the wrong orbit

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket was grounded by the FAA after its April 19, 2026 third flight placed AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 satellite in an unusable orbit due to an upper-stage engine failure, marking the vehicle's first major operational failure at a critical moment for its NASA Artemis ambitions.

Janet Harrison · Apr 26, 2026 · 2:42 AM

Young men are choosing AI girlfriends over real relationships and the consequences are only beginning

Teenage boys are increasingly forming primary emotional attachments to AI companion apps rather than pursuing real relationships, a trend that psychologists warn could produce a generation of young men with underdeveloped social skills. For the startup and investment community, the category represents both a commercially validated market and a rapidly escalating ethics and regulatory liability that most platforms are not yet equipped to handle.

Janet Harrison · Apr 26, 2026 · 2:23 AM

Proton maps out an ambitious 2026 roadmap as privacy demand hits new highs

Proton has published its 2026 spring and summer product roadmap, outlining feature improvements across Mail, Drive, Calendar, and Pass while launching a new Workspace plan for business users. CEO Andy Yen says the company will accelerate development this year, leaning heavily on community feedback and a growing suite of privacy-first tools that now rival Big Tech's productivity offerings.

Janet Harrison · Apr 26, 2026 · 2:16 AM

How OpenAI's release timeline is shaping investor bets on GPT-5

Developers and investors on Reddit and X are dissecting OpenAI's model release history, from GPT-4 to the o1 reasoning architecture, to forecast when GPT-5 arrives and how it reshapes the competitive landscape. The analysis is less nostalgia and more market intelligence, with real capital decisions riding on the outcome.

Janet Harrison · Apr 26, 2026 · 1:26 AM

Charles Hoskinson has a $250 million deal with a UK bank that could finally make Cardano matter

Monument Bank has agreed to tokenize £250 million in customer deposits on Cardano's Midnight network, marking one of the ecosystem's largest commercial deals and a test of Charles Hoskinson's vision for privacy infrastructure that bridges regulated finance and AI agents.

Janet Harrison · Apr 25, 2026 · 10:50 PM

Solana Foundation is lending USDT into Aave and bringing the AAVE token to Solana as DeFi's biggest lending protocol fights for its footing

Solana Foundation President Lily Liu has announced the foundation is lending USDT into Aave for the first time and planning to bring the AAVE token natively to Solana, as Aave manages the aftermath of the $293 million Kelp DAO rsETH exploit and a $100 million-plus DeFi United recovery effort.

Janet Harrison · Apr 25, 2026 · 10:12 PM

Sam Altman says he is deeply sorry OpenAI did not flag Tumbler Ridge shooter to police

Sam Altman has issued a formal apology to Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, after OpenAI banned the ChatGPT account of mass shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar in June 2025 , eight months before she killed eight people including six children , without alerting police, raising urgent questions about AI platforms' duty to warn law enforcement.