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In Australië wordt op een aantal plekken het openbaar vervoer tijdelijk gratis, sympathieke maatregel,
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-30/victoria-and-tasmania-free-public-transport/106512252

Which states have introduced free public transport amid fuel crisis
As fuel prices continue to rise some states have moved to make public transport free, while others say that fares are already low enough. Find out where. 

Meta quietly rolled out USDC stablecoin payouts on Solana and Polygon for select creators in Colombia and the Philippines (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/29/meta-stablecoins-crypto-usdc-polygon-solana/

Meta quietly rolls out stablecoin payments four years after demise of controversial Libra project
Creators can receive payouts in the stablecoin USDC on the Solana and Polygon blockchains, according to a new page on Meta’s website.

Tel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to automate game marketing, raised a $30M Series B led by Greenfield Partners, bringing its total funding to $57M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rjxbyqisze

Sett secures $30 million Series B to automate game marketing with AI agents
The Israeli startup targets billions spent on user acquisition with agent-based automation.

OpenAI says its models, starting with GPT-5.1, "increasingly mentioned goblins, gremlins, and other creatures", leading to prompt instructions to mitigate it (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from

China's tech boom is creating a new kind of tech tourism where visitors pay for curated robotaxi rides and tours of EV factories and AI and robotics companies (Kinling Lo/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-tourism/

China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism
Foreign visitors are flocking to China’s factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.

A look at Pretext, a new JS library that solves the problem of calculating multi-line text height without touching the DOM, enabling highly dynamic layouts (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/29/pretext/

Pretext
Exciting new browser library from Cheng Lou, previously a React core developer and the original creator of the react-motion animation library. Pretext solves the problem of calculating the height of …

ScaleOps, which makes automated cloud spend tools, raised a $130M Series C led by Insight Partners at an $800M valuation, bringing its total funding to $210M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/skywz1dowe

ScaleOps secures $130 million Series C at $800 million valuation as AI compute demand explodes
The Israeli startup targets inefficiencies in how enterprises manage cloud and GPU resources. 

Pro-AI group Innovation Council Action, praised by David Sacks, plans to spend $100M in the US midterms to drive deregulation and support Trump's AI agenda (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/29/ai-pac-midterms-trump

Scoop: New pro-AI group preps $100M midterm blitz to boost Trump's agenda
The group has the blessing of tech mogul David Sacks.

Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, costing <50% of Veo 3.1 Fast and meant for "high-volume video applications", and affirms its commitment to video generation tools (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/03/31/veo-3-1-lite/

Google commits to video generation, announces Veo 3.1 Lite
Following OpenAI’s Sora exit last week, Google today said it’s committed to offering video generation while announcing Veo 3.1 Lite.

Amazon reports Q1 revenue of $181.5B, up 17% YoY, net income of $30.3B, up 77%, and operating income of $23.9B, up 30% YoY (Amazon)
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260428268696/en/