Here’s today’s Online Business, Tech & AI roundup 💻. From African startups to global artificial intelligence trends.
- 🇳🇬 CBN begins virtual asset anti-money laundering supervision, names Paystack, Flutterwave for pilot
- 🇳🇬 CBN gives banks 21 days to grade their cyber defences
- 🇳🇬 FinCode: 10 Years of Building the Infrastructure Behind Africa’s Fintech Growth
- 🇳🇬 Cascador opens 2026 ScaleUp Program for Nigeria’s growth-stage founders
- 🇳🇬 AI gave fraudsters a superweapon, but financial institutions are still reaching for the old shield
- 🇳🇬 Dinesurf: How a third-generation hospitality family is rewriting the economics of African restaurants
- 🇳🇬 Applications open for $100k FINCA Ventures Prize competition
- 🇳🇬 VC firm Novastar reaches final close of $147m Africa People and Planet Fund III
- 🇳🇬 Africa turns to philanthropists to fill gaps in health funding – African Business
- 🇳🇬 Afreximbank underwrites US$2.5-billion term loan for Dangote Refinery – African Business
- Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open-source LiteLLM project
- Toyota’s Woven Capital appoints new CIO and COO in push for finding the ‘future of mobility’
- Robotaxi Outage in China Leaves Passengers Stranded on Highways
- Apple Will Push Out Rare ‘Backported’ Patches to Protect iOS 18 Users From DarkSword Hacking Tool
- Shifting to AI model customization is an architectural imperative
- The Download: AI health tools and the Pentagon’s Anthropic culture war
- NASA is leading the way to the Moon, but the military won’t be far behind
- Running local models on Macs gets faster with Ollama’s MLX support
- Hackers slipped a trojan into the code library behind most of the internet. Your team is probably affected
- Meta’s new structured prompting technique makes LLMs significantly better at code review — boosting accuracy to 93% in some cases
- TSMC plans 3-nanometre chip production launch in Japan in 2028 – Reuters
- Apple’s 50-year journey from garage to tech titan – Reuters
- Boards Need to Rethink How They Advise CEOs – Harvard Business Review
- Building a Sustainability Strategy Around Customers – Harvard Business Review
- AI in the workplace: A report for 2025 | McKinsey – McKinsey & Company
- What’s your next brilliant move? – McKinsey & Company
- I Stopped Fixing Problems and Built a Team That Solves Them Using a Three-Question Rule
- The Strategy P.F. Chang’s New CMO Is Betting On — And What It Means for Your Business
- Meta is assembling an elite new AI lab for its recommendations division
- Asana CEO bets on organizing AI agent chaos at work as Wall Street fears SaaS disruption
That’s all for tech and online business today 🚀. Which AI trend or startup caught your eye? Share below!
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