Online Business Daily Digest – September 15, 2025

Here’s today’s Online Business roundup 💻. From freelancing to e-commerce, these are the key updates.

1. OpenAI board chair Bret Taylor says we’re in an AI bubble (but that’s okay) – TechCrunch
2. iPhone 17, iPhone Air, AirPods Pro 3, and everything else announced at Apple’s hardware event – TechCrunch
3. 🇳🇬 Is Lagos the fintech capital or an infrastructural ticking time-bomb?
4. 🇳🇬 Top 5 platforms to stream live football matches on your smartphone
5. They hadn’t planned on buying property. Then came kids and a tiny house in the Philippines.
6. Even the Pope has an opinion on Elon Musk’s proposed $1 trillion pay package
7. LinkedIn Content Strategy: Achieving Sustainable Growth
8. AI Operating Systems: The Next Level of AI for Business
9. Build Smarter Portfolios With AI-Guided Stock Picks and Risk-Based Recommendations
10. Learn Pro Stock Trading Strategies with This $30 Candlestick Analysis Masterclass
11. I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
12. How China’s Propaganda and Surveillance Systems Really Operate
13. 🇳🇬 Digital Nomads: A Delaware incorporation does not make a startup global. So what does?
14. 🇳🇬 “Our software runs over 55% of cinemas in West Africa” – Day 1-1000 of Fusion Intelligence
15. Rolling Stone owner Penske Media sues Google over AI summaries – TechCrunch
16. Users turn to chatbots for spiritual guidance – TechCrunch
17. Karen Hao on the Empire of AI, AGI evangelists, and the cost of belief – TechCrunch
18. Tesla board chair calls debate over Elon Musk’s $1T pay package ‘a little bit weird’ – TechCrunch
19. xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data annotation team – TechCrunch
20. Via raises $492.9M in IPO, and German automakers go on the offensive – TechCrunch

That’s all for online business today 🚀. Are you building a side hustle or scaling up? Share below!