Here’s today’s Online Business, Tech & AI roundup 💻. From African startups to global artificial intelligence trends.
- 🇳🇬 M-PESA to stop sharing full phone numbers with merchants, banks by year-end
- 🇳🇬 African startups are ‘over-mentored, over-trained.’ Rwanda wants to fix that.
- 🇳🇬 Can Africa build its own global social media platform?
- 🇳🇬 Utiva Selected into Techstars as It Expands from Talent Training to AI-Powered Global Workforce Infrastructure
- 🇳🇬 The 30% rule: How SORA kills more African mosquitoes for less with AI drones
- 🇳🇬 $96 billion in crypto transactions : The Nigerian SEC thinks is time for serious regulations
- 🇳🇬 Egyptian e-commerce startup Mitcha acquired by US firm Converted
- 🇳🇬 Nigeria’s Duplo secures dual licenses to bridge e-invoicing, payments for businesses
- 🇳🇬 Africa needs innovation-led growth powered by data and frontier tech – African Business
- These AI notetaking devices can help you record and transcribe your meetings
- Amazon acquires Rivr, maker of a stair-climbing delivery robot
- Best Kids’ Bikes (2026): Woom, Prevelo, Guardian, and More
- China Approves the First Brain Chips for Sale—and Has a Plan to Dominate the Industry
- The Download: OpenAI is building a fully automated researcher, and a psychedelic trial blind spot
- OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher
- Rocket Report: Canada makes a major move, US Space Force says actually, let’s be hasty
- Project Hail Mary is in theaters—but do the linguistics work?
- Anthropic just shipped an OpenClaw killer called Claude Code Channels, letting you message it over Telegram and Discord
- Why enterprises are replacing generic AI with tools that know their users
- Exclusive: Amazon plans smartphone comeback more than a decade after Fire Phone flop – Reuters
- ‘Great crackdown’: Russia tightens the screws on the internet – Reuters
- Our Favorite Management Tips on Leading with AI – Harvard Business Review
- The Oil Shock Is Here. And We’re Just Beginning to Feel It. – Harvard Business Review
- AI in the workplace: A report for 2025 | McKinsey – McKinsey & Company
- Courageous conversations, the future of robotics, and more – McKinsey & Company
- Elite NFL Athletes and Top CEOs Are Gathering for an Exclusive Business Summit in Utah
- How to Spot High-Potential Employees in Their First 30 Days on Your Team
- I’ve been a wedding photographer for over 12 years. Here are 10 of the best ideas I’ve seen at weddings.
- Rebecca Yarros is working on the 4th ‘Empyrean’ novel. Here’s everything the ‘Fourth Wing’ author has said about the book so far.
- The Epstein Files’ Terrible Writing Is a Lesson in the Psychology of Power
That’s all for tech and online business today 🚀. Which AI trend or startup caught your eye? Share below!
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