Here’s today’s Online Business, Tech & AI roundup 💻. From African startups to global artificial intelligence trends.
- 🇳🇬 Payd taps Noah for stablecoin-powered payments for African freelancers
- 🇳🇬 Valentine’s Day 2026: 8 digital safety tips to avoid online scams
- 🇳🇬 Ikeja Electric ties power supply to tax IDs for businesses
- 🇳🇬 From Papaoutai to Urban Chords: The business and legal stakes of AI music
- 🇳🇬 Flutterwave signals deeper commitment to Nigeria at star-studded gala night with Obasanjo and business titans
- 🇳🇬 Inside the Temu–Jumia battle for Africa’s digital market
- 🇳🇬 Africa’s “big four” remains as dominant as ever as capital continues to find safe haven
- 🇳🇬 SA’s Talk360 raises $1.4m funding round to support next phase of development
- 🇳🇬 Digital reforms can help Africa shed “distressed continent” tag – African Business
- Waymo is asking DoorDash drivers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars
- For $1M, you can pay Bryan Johnson (or BryanAI?) to teach you how to live longer
- The Asus Zenbook S 16 Is $500 Off and Has Never Been This Cheap
- ‘Uncanny Valley’: ICE’s Secret Expansion Plans, Palantir Workers’ Ethical Concerns, and AI Assistants
- The Download: AI-enhanced cybercrime, and secure AI assistants
- AI is already making online crimes easier. It could get much worse.
- When Amazon badly needed a ride, Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket delivered
- OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips
- Nvidia’s new technique cuts LLM reasoning costs by 8x without losing accuracy
- MiniMax’s new open M2.5 and M2.5 Lightning near state-of-the-art while costing 1/20th of Claude Opus 4.6
- For stock market, AI turns from lifting all boats to sinking ships – Reuters
- Amsterdam-based AI firm Nebius to build 240MW data centre near Lille, France – Reuters
- Why Gen AI Feels So Threatening to Workers – Harvard Business Review
- Disney’s New CEO and the Rise of “Experience Intelligence” – Harvard Business Review
- AI in the workplace: A report for 2025 | McKinsey – McKinsey & Company
- World Economic Forum: A preview of Davos 2026 – McKinsey & Company
- LinkedIn Launches a $100/Month Integrated Sales, Marketing and Hiring Hub
- There’s a Quiet Shift Happening in Finance — and Business Leaders Who Ignore It Will Fall Behind
- Rivian CEO says it may be ‘inconceivable’ to buy a car that can’t drive itself by 2030
- Anthropic’s CEO says we’re in the ‘centaur phase’ of software engineering
- McDonald’s Just Got Some Excellent News, and It Points to Something Even Bigger Tomorrow
That’s all for tech and online business today 🚀. Which AI trend or startup caught your eye? Share below!
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