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Also today: Google's AI safety team is getting a new home... in the lobbying department.

Here are the 7 things you missed today:

1. ⚖️ Anthropic Beat the Pentagon's Supply-Chain Risk Label in Court

Turns out branding Anthropic a national security threat required more than a memo. A federal judge in California ruled Thursday that the Trump administration's supply-chain risk designation was illegal retaliation for the company's criticism, and “arbitrary and capricious.” Judge Rita Lin noted the Pentagon had also floated invoking the Defense Production Act on the company... which would make it essential, not dangerous. (TechCrunch)

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3. 💊 Walmart Reached a Deal With the DOJ Over Opioid Prescriptions

Walmart would quite like this one behind it. The retailer settled the Justice Department's opioid case, which alleged in a 2020 complaint that the Arkansas giant had repeatedly violated the federal Controlled Substances Act since 2013 by filling invalid prescriptions and sitting on suspicious orders. Terms were not disclosed, and Walmart admitted nothing. Its roughly 4,600 pharmacies keep dispensing. (CNBC)

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5. 📺 Apple TV is Raising its Monthly Price to $14.99

Apple TV has now raised prices four times in four years, which is its own kind of subscription model. Monthly goes from $12.99 to $14.99, the annual plan climbs from $99 to $119, and the Apple One bundle hits $21.95. Netflix and Peacock hiked this year too, and RAM shortages driven by AI data center demand are not helping anybody. (TechCrunch)

6. 🕵️ Google is Moving its AI Safety Team Into its Lobbying Arm

Nothing says “we take this seriously” quite like a reporting-line change. Google is reportedly relocating roughly 90 people from its AI responsibility unit out of Google DeepMind and into global affairs, the division that handles lobbying and public policy, per the Wall Street Journal. The move starts in September, shifting safety oversight out of the lab that builds the models and over to the team that talks to regulators. (Quartz)

7. 📧 Brave Built Disposable Email Aliases Into its Browser

Brave just handed Chrome holdouts a reason to defect: burner inboxes. Click an email field on any site and the browser offers a throwaway alias that quietly forwards to your real address, so retailers and ad tech giants like Meta cannot match you across their databases. Brave says it scans for spam, then deletes the message from its servers. (TechCrunch)

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