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52 Companies Now Mention Humanoid Robots in SEC Filings. History Says: Read the Fine Print

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We ran the SEC EDGAR search ourselves: 52 companies mentioned “humanoid” in 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K and S-1 filings this year, up from 17 in 2025 and 6 in 2024. Only 9 build, sell or own a humanoid maker. What the filings say once you read past the press release, what dot-com, blockchain and AI washing teach, and a checklist to tell a robot strategy from a robot story. Not investment advice.
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The Marshall Islands Pays Every Citizen a Basic Income. One Year In, What the First Nationwide UBI Can and Can’t Tell Us

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A year after the Marshall Islands started paying every resident citizen a basic income, four quarterly payments have gone out, the last one $215.85 to 40,714 people, and the country has just budgeted $32.5 million plus a $3.2 million top-up for year two. What Enra is, who pays for it (a US compact trust fund worth $1.77 billion), why the IMF wants it replaced, and what the first nationwide UBI can and cannot tell richer countries in the AI debate.
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Abu Dhabi Wants an AI-Native Government. What Happens to Public Work When the Rules Become Machine-Readable?

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On 2 November 2026 Abu Dhabi signed four agreements with OpenAI: ADNOC, Mubadala, a five-year rollout with G42’s Inception42 and a “Machine-Readable Government” pilot that lets AI assist officials with routine compliance checks. What was signed, what was not disclosed, and what it means for companies, residents and public employees when the rulebook becomes software.
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The End of the AI Flat Rate? Musk Says Grok Bot Cost Too Much, OpenAI Tightens the Rules. What Changes for You

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Elon Musk says serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue. OpenAI limits paid ChatGPT accounts per card and device and moves ChatGPT and Codex onto one token-based allowance from December. Is the all-you-can-eat era of AI subscriptions ending? What the original posts and help pages say, why every question costs something different, and what it means for companies and users.
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