The Brutalist Report

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• The Los Angeles Unified School District's board votes to require screen time limits, making it the first major American school system to do so (Tyler Kingkade/NBC News) [8d]
• Anthropic appears to have removed access to Claude Code from its $20/month Pro plan; Anthropic says it is "running a small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups" (Ed Zitron/Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At) [8d]
• Filing: Anthropic spent $1.6M and OpenAI $1M on lobbying in Q1, vs. $360K and $560K in Q1 2025, respectively; Meta topped Big Tech lobbying spending with $7.1M (Ashley Gold/Axios) [8d]
• AcuityMD, which provides AI tools that automate sales call recaps, CRM data entry, and more for medtech companies, raised an $80M Series C at a $955M valuation (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios) [8d]