Online Business Daily Digest – January 08, 2026

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Here’s today’s Online Business, Tech & AI roundup 💻. From African startups to global artificial intelligence trends.

  1. 🇳🇬 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – South Africans are buying more cars
  2. 🇳🇬 With US visa bond, the path to Silicon Valley just got steeper for African startups
  3. 🇳🇬 Econet is delisting from the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange
  4. 🇳🇬 Heirs Technologies Accredited by NRS to Support Nigerian Businesses on E-Invoicing Compliance
  5. 🇳🇬 Uganda’s Essymart is providing smallholder farmers with a full suite of tech products to boost profits
  6. 🇳🇬 Egypt’s Business For Teens raises 6-figure pre-seed funding to expand across Egypt, GCC
  7. 🇳🇬 Cheaper smartphones can close Africa’s digital divide, says GSMA – African Business
  8. 🇳🇬 Unlocking Africa’s economic potential through innovative financing – African Business
  9. Yes, LinkedIn banned AI agent startup Artisan, but now it’s back – TechCrunch
  10. Shopify competitor Swap raises $100M six months after raising $40M – TechCrunch
  11. Litter-Robot Promo Codes and Deals: Up to $150 Off
  12. Traces of Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA May Have Been Discovered on a Red Chalk Drawing Called ‘Holy Child’
  13. LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter? – MIT Technology Review
  14. The Download: War in Europe, and the company that wants to cool the planet – MIT Technology Review
  15. A crew member’s “medical concern” foils a planned spacewalk outside the ISS
  16. Ford is getting ready to put AI assistants in its cars
  17. Nous Research’s NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment – Venturebeat
  18. MiroMind’s MiroThinker 1.5 delivers trillion-parameter performance from a 30B model — at 1/20th the cost – Venturebeat
  19. Exclusive: Arm launches ‘Physical AI’ unit, joining rush to robotics by tech and automakers – Reuters
  20. Applied Digital beats quarterly revenue estimates on AI data center demand, shares jump – Reuters
  21. The Risks of Prioritizing Short-Term Revenue Over Customer Fit – Harvard Business Review
  22. How to Handle a Difficult Board Member – Harvard Business Review
  23. AI in the workplace: A report for 2025 | McKinsey – mckinsey.com
  24. How I Won Over Investors and Raised $1.5 Million Without a Network or Experience
  25. AI Can Clone Your Company in 48 Hours — But Here’s What You Need to Survive
  26. Trump said he wants to raise the US military budget by 50% in 2027
  27. Google and chatbot startup Character.AI are settling lawsuits over teen suicides
  28. Bryan Johnson Shares 10 Health Habits to Help You Cheat Death in 2026
  29. Watch Your Team Try (and Mostly Fail) to Change a Health Habit
  30. 🇳🇬 How Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti are building Africa’s overlooked digital powerhouses

That’s all for tech and online business today 🚀. Which AI trend or startup caught your eye? Share below!

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