Online Business Daily Digest – September 16, 2025

Here’s today’s Online Business roundup 💻. From freelancing to e-commerce, these are the key updates.

1. Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins
2. How AI Is Upending Politics, Tech, the Media, and More
3. 🇳🇬 Tanzania’s biggest bank overhauls core banking system to chase regional growth
4. 🇳🇬 CEMAC bets on interoperability, but at what cost for startups?
5. 🇳🇬 DSS drags Meta and X to court over Sowore’s anti-Tinubu post
6. 🇳🇬 See full list of legal and illegal gambling platforms in Lagos State
7. Two Essential Tools Every Entrepreneur Needs: Adobe Acrobat Classic and Microsoft Office
8. This Simple Strategy Will Help Franchisees Get Customers and Scale Faster
9. I tried making Ina Garten’s pumpkin, apple, and pecan pies. I’ll never use anyone else’s crust recipe again.
10. I avoided the post-wedding blues by quitting my job, selling our house, and moving abroad within 3 weeks
11. Google launches new protocol for agent-driven purchases – TechCrunch
12. Y Combinator-backed Rulebase wants to be the AI coworker for fintech – TechCrunch
13. Automating Lead Nurturing With AI Agents
14. LinkedIn Content Strategy: Achieving Sustainable Growth
15. Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions
16. USA Today Enters Its Gen AI Era With a Chatbot
17. OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI
18. I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
19. How China’s Propaganda and Surveillance Systems Really Operate
20. Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content-Moderation World

That’s all for online business today 🚀. Are you building a side hustle or scaling up? Share below!