Here’s today’s Online Business, Tech & AI roundup 💻. From African startups to global artificial intelligence trends.
- 🇳🇬 Why MTN and Airtel temporarily suspended airtime lending in Nigeria
- 🇳🇬 Naira volatility cost his family. He built an FX platform for businesses.
- 🇳🇬 Kredete Partners with Visa Africa to Advance Stablecoin-Backed Card Innovation Across Africa and the Gulf Cooperation Council
- 🇳🇬 Tulupay Announces the Prelaunch of its Pan African First Financial Operating System (FOS) for High Interoperability of Africa’s Financial Ecosystem
- 🇳🇬 Norrsken22 leads $5.8M seed for Lua to scale the first AI agent OS in Africa
- 🇳🇬 MTN halts XtraTime service amid Nigeria’s new digital lending rules
- 🇳🇬 Nigerian startup launches AI-powered grant intelligence platform
- 🇳🇬 SA med-tech company AI Diagnostics raises $5.2m to accelerate AI-powered TB screening
- 🇳🇬 IMF: Africa’s hard-won gains under pressure from Iran war – African Business
- 🇳🇬 Can Africa avoid Asia’s palm oil pitfalls? – African Business
- Once close enough for an acquisition, Stripe and Airwallex are now going after each other
- Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.
- OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company
- Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder
- The Download: bad news for inner Neanderthals, and AI warfare’s human illusion
- Making AI operational in constrained public sector environments
- US-sanctioned currency exchange says $15 million heist done by “unfriendly states”
- Man with @ihackedthegovernment Instagram account tells judge, “I made a mistake”
- Train-to-Test scaling explained: How to optimize your end-to-end AI compute budget for inference
- Most enterprises can’t stop stage-three AI agent threats, VentureBeat survey finds
- China humanoid robot half-marathon to showcase technical leaps – Reuters
- Exclusive: Meta targets May 20 for first wave of layoffs; additional cuts later in 2026 – Reuters
- 5 Questions Leaders Should Ask Before Turning to Fractional Work – Harvard Business Review
- Research: What China’s AI Agents Reveal About the Future of Commerce – Harvard Business Review
- AI in the workplace: A report for 2025 | McKinsey – McKinsey & Company
- Rewired 2.0: How leading companies (are still) winning with AI – McKinsey & Company
- 7 AI Tools That Run Your Entire One-Person Business While You Sleep (No Staff, No Code)
- The 5 Stages of Career Growth — and What It Takes to Reach the Next One
- ‘Life-changing’: Tesla owners in Europe take a victory lap after finally getting FSD
- This is what Iran’s drones and missiles look like up close
That’s all for tech and online business today 🚀. Which AI trend or startup caught your eye? Share below!
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