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 12, 2026 · 1:45 PM

Britain bets on state equity to stop its best startups from decamping to America

Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has vowed the British state will take more risks alongside private investors, with the British Business Bank already anchoring £100 million of Oxford Quantum Circuits' record £260 million Series C and backing Wayve's $1.2 billion Series D. The £500 million Sovereign AI Fund adds equity of up to £20 million per startup, one million GPU-hours, and same-day visa processing for key hires. UK AI startups raised £6 billion in 2025 and are on pace to double that in 2026,

Janet Harrison · Jun 12, 2026 · 11:17 AM

The Big Four are selling AI governance while their own reports hallucinate

KPMG, EY, and Deloitte have each been caught using unvalidated AI in published reports, with EY retracting a cybersecurity study in May 2026 after 16 of 27 citations were found to be fabricated, and Deloitte refunding a portion of an AU$440,000 Australian government contract over similar failures. The pattern reveals a governance gap with direct implications for enterprise buyers, investors, and founders evaluating consulting credibility.

Janet Harrison · Jun 12, 2026 · 8:54 AM

Senate's crypto market bill needs 60 votes and a deal on ethics to become law

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act landed on the Senate floor calendar on June 1 after a 15-9 committee vote, but four steps remain before it becomes law, including a 60-vote cloture threshold requiring seven Democratic senators who are conditioning support on an ethics provision Republicans have not committed to in writing. For DeFi protocols and token issuers that have spent years in legal limbo, the bill's SEC-CFTC decentralization test would be transformative, but Galaxy Research has alrea

Janet Harrison · Jun 12, 2026 · 6:30 AM

Adobe's record AI results could not outrun its growing leadership vacuum

Adobe reported record Q2 revenue of $6.62 billion and saw its AI-first ARR triple past $500 million, but shares fell roughly 5% after-hours as CFO Dan Durn announced his departure for Marvell Technology. The exit lands on top of an open CEO search following Shantanu Narayen's March announcement, leaving Adobe navigating its most consequential AI monetization push with two C-suite seats in flux.

Janet Harrison · Jun 12, 2026 · 3:18 AM

Palantir's NHS battle reveals the political risk enterprise AI investors ignore

The cross-party House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee called on the UK government in June 2026 to use the February 2027 break clause to exit Palantir's £330 million NHS Federated Data Platform contract. With Amnesty International backing the demand and NHS staff actively boycotting the software, the situation has become a case study in how political and reputational risk compounds for enterprise AI companies chasing government healthcare contracts.

Janet Harrison · Jun 12, 2026 · 2:41 AM

SpaceX is about to dwarf the biggest IPOs markets have seen

SpaceX has priced its IPO at $135 a share ahead of a Friday Nasdaq debut, targeting roughly $75 billion in proceeds. That would eclipse Saudi Aramco, Alibaba, SoftBank Corp, Agricultural Bank of China and ICBC, the five largest IPOs that defined the market before this week.

Janet Harrison · Jun 12, 2026 · 12:54 AM

Gold sinks to its lowest level since November as the Fed's tightening bias overrides every safe haven argument

Gold fell to around $4,080 on June 11, its lowest level since November 2025, as May CPI hit 4.2% and rate-hike odds surged past 70%. The sell-off defies gold's traditional safe-haven role during the US-Iran war, with the dollar emerging as the market's preferred defensive asset instead. CFTC data shows a counterintuitive picture: speculative shorts are near multi-month lows, suggesting the decline is macro-driven rather than positional , which makes the eventual reversal harder to time.

Janet Harrison · Jun 11, 2026 · 10:05 PM

Visa embeds its payment network inside ChatGPT as the race to own agentic commerce breaks into a sprint

Visa announced on June 10 a partnership with OpenAI that embeds its payment network inside ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to complete purchases at any Visa-accepting merchant using tokenized credentials scoped to specific agents, spending limits, and merchant categories. The move puts Visa in direct competition with Mastercard's blockchain-based Agent Pay for control of the agentic commerce layer, and raises hard questions for fintech startups building in the same stack.

Janet Harrison · Jun 11, 2026 · 7:41 PM

Jeff Bezos closes a $12 billion Series B for Prometheus on the thesis that AI for engineers is the cleanest capital bet in the market right now

Jeff Bezos's AI startup Prometheus closed a $12 billion Series B today, valuing the company at $41 billion after just seven months of operation. Built around what Bezos calls an "artificial general engineer," Prometheus targets aerospace, automotive, and pharma design workflows , and its funding round signals that AI capital in 2026 is moving toward enterprise-specific, high-consequence verticals rather than general intelligence.

Janet Harrison · Jun 11, 2026 · 7:19 PM

Xpeng puts its founder in charge of the humanoid robot race

Xpeng CEO He Xiaopeng is taking direct control of the company’s robotics unit as its IRON humanoid program moves toward mass production. The decision shows Xpeng wants to be seen as a physical AI company, not just another EV maker in China’s crowded market.

Janet Harrison · Jun 11, 2026 · 5:17 PM

SLB's new AI deal with PDVSA shows enterprise technology is reaching markets where traditional capital still fears to tread

Janet Harrison · Jun 11, 2026 · 2:52 PM

Deezer turns its internal AI music detector into a free public tool that works on Spotify, Apple Music, and 18 other platforms

Deezer launched a free AI music detection tool on June 11, 2026 that scans playlists across 20 streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple Music. With 44% of its daily uploads now AI-generated and 85% of those streams flagged as fraudulent, the company is betting its detection infrastructure is valuable enough to license to rivals and rights bodies alike.

Janet Harrison · Jun 11, 2026 · 12:30 PM

China is building a legal wall around AI-displaced workers while America watches from the sidelines

China's courts have ruled that AI-replacement terminations are illegal, and Beijing is now building a full regulatory framework around that principle, including employment monitoring systems and five-year plan mandates. The divergence from the US laissez-faire approach creates new liability exposure for global founders selling enterprise AI into the Chinese market.

Janet Harrison · Jun 11, 2026 · 10:08 AM

Fresh US strikes on Iran are squeezing metals on two tracks that traditional safe-haven logic cannot explain

Fresh US-Iran strikes this week sent metals markets into a paradox: gold fell despite escalating conflict as dollar strength and rate fears overwhelmed safe-haven demand. But the more durable story runs through the Strait of Hormuz, where a sulfur supply crunch is quietly degrading copper and zinc refining worldwide , and the AI data center buildout is absorbing the cost.

Janet Harrison · Jun 11, 2026 · 7:41 AM

DDN Is Hunting a Strategic Investor and Its New Valuation Will Be a Referendum on AI Storage

Janet Harrison · Jun 11, 2026 · 5:16 AM

A fired xAI engineer's Grok safety lawsuit arrives two days before SpaceX prices the largest IPO in history

Former xAI engineer Devin Kim filed a California lawsuit Tuesday alleging he was wrongfully fired after warning that Grok could spread discrimination and weapons of mass destruction information. The complaint, which names both xAI and SpaceX, lands two days before SpaceX prices its $75 billion IPO, raising AI safety governance questions at the worst possible moment for institutional investors still in due diligence.