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.
- 🇳🇬 APEX Network and AltSchool Africa Launch One of Nigeria’s Largest Crypto Literacy Scholarship —1,000 Fully Funded Spots Available – Techpoint Africa
- 🇳🇬 Nigeria Signs Intra-African Trade Fair 2027 Host Agreement; Gears Up for Africa’s Biggest Marketplace – Techpoint Africa
- New court filing reveals Pentagon told Anthropic the two sides were nearly aligned — a week after Trump declared the relationship kaput
- Elon Musk misled Twitter investors while trying to get out of acquisition, jury says
- Anthropic Denies It Could Sabotage AI Tools During War – WIRED
- There Aren’t a Lot of Reasons to Get Excited About a New Amazon Smartphone – WIRED
- 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
- DOGE goes nuclear: How trump invited silicon valley into America’s nuclear power regulator
- Jury finds Musk owes damages to Twitter investors for his tweets
- Three ways AI is learning to understand the physical world
- Scale AI launches Voice Showdown, the first real-world benchmark for voice AI — and the results are humbling for some top models
- Exclusive: Pentagon to adopt Palantir AI as core US military system, memo says – Reuters
- Musk found liable to Twitter shareholders in fraud lawsuit over $44 billion takeover – Reuters
- Overcoming Self-Doubt When Launching Your Own Business – Harvard Business Review
- Will the Iran War Deliver a Long-Predicted U.S. Recession? – Harvard Business Review
- AI in the workplace: A report for 2025 | McKinsey – McKinsey & Company
- Strategy & Corporate Finance Blog – McKinsey & Company
- This New AI Tool Runs 90% of My One-Person Business — Here Are 7 Ways I Use It (No Code, No Staff)
- He Started a Smoky Side Hustle in His Backyard — It Hit Mid-6 Figures a Month and Is Now Sold in Costco: ‘Created Out of Thin Air’
- I let my 8-year-old son roam the neighborhood freely. Other parents nearby are starting to let their kids do the same.
- I booked a bedroom and a roomette on the same overnight Amtrak train. The bedroom is worth the splurge for longer rides.
- How Janus Henderson Develops High-Potential Talent Into Future Leaders
- How Interstellar Labs Founder Barbara Belvisi Turned a Moonshot Into a Business
- 🇳🇬 When tech calls it waste, Nairobi calls it Tuesday
- 🇳🇬 Inside Daniel Anomfueme’s mission to build Africa’s first truly decentralised science tech ecosystem – Techpoint Africa
- Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows
- A Top Democrat Is Urging Colleagues to Support Trump’s Spy Machine – WIRED
That’s all for tech and online business today 🚀. Which AI trend or startup caught your eye? Share below!
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