Here’s today’s Online Business, Tech & AI roundup 💻. From African startups to global artificial intelligence trends.
- 🇳🇬 Nigeria’s Enugu State plans AI insitute in bold bet on digital talent exports
- 🇳🇬 Sama to lay off over 1,100 Kenyan workers after Meta contract ends
- 🇳🇬 Nigerian Founder Sells Dubai Business to Fund Keepaza, a Payment Identity Platform Built for How Nigerians Actually Transact
- 🇳🇬 Platnova Celebrates Third Anniversary with over 100,000 Users and a Bold Bet on Zero Fees
- 🇳🇬 MTN halts XtraTime service amid Nigeria’s new digital lending rules
- 🇳🇬 Flutterwave hosts investor roundtable on Africa’s digital economy at IMF–World Bank meetings
- 🇳🇬 Nigeria’s Duplo, SA’s Ozow partner to transform payments, expense management for businesses
- 🇳🇬 Kenya’s Rafode joins FasterCapital’s EquityPilot programme for further rollout
- 🇳🇬 EBID sets ambitious investment drive as West Africa growth strategy takes shape – African Business
- 🇳🇬 Minister Nabé takes helm of EBID Governors as Guinea pushes reform agenda – African Business
- New leaders, new fund: Sequoia has raised $7B to expand its AI bets
- Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises
- Dark Matter May Be Made of Black Holes From Another Universe
- The Online Fiction Boom Reimagining China’s History
- Making AI operational in constrained public sector environments
- The Download: cyberscammers’ banking bypasses, and carbon removal troubles
- After a saga of broken promises, a European rover finally has a ride to Mars
- Lucasfilm drops The Mandalorian and Grogu final trailer at CinemaCon
- Salesforce launches Headless 360 to turn its entire platform into infrastructure for AI agents
- Are we getting what we paid for? How to turn AI momentum into measurable value
- Tesla seeks Taiwan chip engineers for Terafab project – Reuters
- OpenAI to spend more than $20 billion on Cerebras chips, receive equity stake, The Information reports – Reuters
- When Your Ambition Starts to Exhaust You – Harvard Business Review
- Personal purpose and values – HBR – Harvard Business Review
- AI in the workplace: A report for 2025 | McKinsey – McKinsey & Company
- The CEO Shortlist: What changes—and what doesn’t—in the age of AI? – McKinsey & Company
- The 3 PR Strategies I Stopped Recommending to Clients After They Backfired
- How to Choose a PR Firm in the Age of AI — and What Most Companies Get Wrong
- I saw the K-pop mega band Seventeen live 5 times in 7 months — and one stop was the best
- Labubu propelled Pop Mart to the top. It might be its undoing.
That’s all for tech and online business today 🚀. Which AI trend or startup caught your eye? Share below!
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