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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. 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directs the DOD to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk, barring military contractors from doing business with the company (@secwar)
https://x.com/secwar/status/2027507717469049070

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) on X
This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon. Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116325860026985146
This, combined with the Cisco source code theft, equals a bad day for code security.

OpenAI says it does not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and it has made its position on this clear to the Pentagon (@openai)
https://x.com/openai/status/2027846016423321831

OpenAI (@OpenAI) on X
We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and we’ve made our position on this clear to the Department of War.

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.

Sam Altman says OpenAI reached an agreement with the DOD to deploy its models in DOD's classified network and asks DOD to extend those terms to all AI companies (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2027578580159631610

Sam Altman (@sama) on X
Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of

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

OpenAI says ChatGPT has 900M weekly active users, 50M consumer subscribers, and weekly Codex users have more than tripled since the start of the year to 1.6M (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-for-everyone

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.