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 · May 24, 2026

Cheap Optane memory is giving local AI builders a new route.

A LocalLLaMA user ran Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 on a workstation using 768GB of secondhand Intel Optane Persistent Memory and a single RTX 3060. The result is slow but useful enough to show why memory arbitrage may become a serious AI infrastructure strategy.

Janet Harrison · May 24, 2026

Apple opens LiTo as 3D AI becomes a developer race

Apple has released public code for LiTo, its ICLR 2026 image-to-3D model that focuses on realistic lighting, reflections and material behavior. The move gives developers another open 3D AI tool to test as spatial computing, games and enterprise AR demand faster asset pipelines.

Janet Harrison · May 24, 2026

TeamPCP shows why trusted developer tools are now the target

TeamPCP’s attacks show how poisoned developer tools can turn trusted open source workflows into entry points for major breaches. The GitHub incident is current evidence that developer machines, extensions and package ecosystems now sit at the center of business risk.

Janet Harrison · May 24, 2026

Ansel Adams trust condemns unauthorized AI colorized work

The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust is not anti AI. It is anti theft. A gallery exhibited and offered for sale an AI colorized version of Adams' iconic

Janet Harrison · May 24, 2026

OpenAI is paying up to $445,000 for AI safety judgment

OpenAI is offering up to $445,000 for a researcher focused on recursive self-improvement preparedness. The listing shows how AI safety hiring has become a strategic battleground for frontier labs and a harder compensation problem for startups.

Janet Harrison · May 24, 2026

UK MPs want an AI kill switch for data centres

UK MPs are backing an amendment that would give ministers last-resort powers to shut down AI systems or data centres in a catastrophic emergency. The proposal is not law yet, but it signals a tougher compliance environment for AI startups serving critical sectors.

Janet Harrison · May 23, 2026

Tech layoffs pass 100,000 as companies fund AI ambitions

Tech layoffs have already passed 100,000 in 2026 as companies redirect spending toward AI infrastructure, automation and specialized teams. The cuts show how AI is becoming both a business priority and a restructuring language across the industry.

Janet Harrison · May 23, 2026

Ordinary WiFi is becoming a new biometric risk for startups

Researchers have shown that ordinary WiFi infrastructure can help identify people by analyzing how bodies alter radio signals. For founders, that creates a new market in physical AI and privacy protection, but also a serious regulatory risk.

Janet Harrison · May 23, 2026

Google is turning search into an AI answer engine and the web may pay the price

Google's new AI search tools are making answers faster and easier to use, but Reuters and other reports show publishers are already feeling the traffic squeeze.

Janet Harrison · May 23, 2026

X is making reposted video harder to monetize

X is redirecting monetization away from repost accounts and toward original creators, a move aimed at content farming on the platform. The change could create new demand for attribution, rights management, and provenance tools as short-form video becomes harder to police at scale.

Janet Harrison · May 23, 2026

Howie Liu is turning Hyperagent credits into a seed-stage weapon

Howie Liu's Hyperagent program offers $10 million in inference credits to 500 founders building agent-first companies. The move shows how AI infrastructure platforms are starting to compete with accelerators by subsidizing the real cost of early experimentation.

Janet Harrison · May 23, 2026

AI startups are making ARR harder to trust.

AI startups are using looser definitions of ARR just as investors rely on the metric to justify major valuations. The real test is whether those headline numbers convert into durable, renewing revenue.

Janet Harrison · May 23, 2026

Blue Origin is turning Florida into a launch capacity bet

Blue Origin is investing $600 million in a Cape Canaveral expansion as it tries to turn New Glenn into a higher-cadence launch business. The move matters because satellite networks, broadband systems and future AI infrastructure all depend on reliable access to orbit.

Janet Harrison · May 23, 2026

Meta's Forum app puts Reddit's public market story on defense

Reddit shares fell after Meta quietly launched Forum, a standalone app built around Facebook Groups and community discussions. The move raises a sharper question for investors: whether Reddit's growing ad and data licensing business is defensible against a much larger platform challenger.

Janet Harrison · May 22, 2026

Solana's push to 200ms slots shows how fast its roadmap is moving

Solana's Agave v4.2 is being discussed as a step toward 200ms slots, but the official signal is broader: Anza's recent Agave 4.0 rollout and Solana's Alpenglow roadmap both point to a network racing toward lower latency and faster finality.

Janet Harrison · May 22, 2026

Kevin Warsh takes the Fed as Bitcoin waits for the next rate signal

Kevin Warsh was sworn in as Federal Reserve chair on May 22, 2026, raising hopes among crypto investors for a friendlier policy backdrop. But sticky inflation and rising bond market pressure mean Bitcoin may have to wait for real rate-cut signals before the rally gets fresh fuel.