Online Business Daily Digest – September 18, 2025

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

1. Move Aside, Chatbots: AI Humanoids Are Here
2. Jensen Huang Wants You to Know He’s Getting a Lot Out of the ‘Fantastic’ Nvidia-Intel Deal
3. 🇳🇬 Africa holds just 1% of global AI talent. Japan wants to change that
4. 🇳🇬 Bonny Island is known for crude oil. This organisation wants it known for tech
5. A Major Bank Is Upping Pay to $25 an Hour — And Amazon Is Coming Close Too
6. This Venezuelan Entrepreneur Craved His Favorite Comfort Food – So He Started a Business Selling It
7. Raising Series A in 2026: Insights from Top Early-Stage VCs at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
8. Huawei announces new AI infrastructure as Nvidia gets locked out of China
9. China Turns Legacy Chips Into a Trade Weapon
10. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Is Bananas for Google Gemini’s AI Image Generator
11. US Tech Giants Race to Spend Billions in UK AI Push
12. OpenAI’s Teen Safety Features Will Walk a Thin Line
13. Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins
14. How AI Is Upending Politics, Tech, the Media, and More
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!