Corporate megastores are spending millions lobbying DC politicians on one-sided policies that send small businesses tumbling.

They want to enact harmful credit card mandates that take resources away from your local credit union and community bank.

Leaving Main Street businesses with less access to credit, making it harder for your family to pay for everyday goods like gas and groceries.

Tell Congress to guard your card and oppose the Durbin Marshall credit card mandates.

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Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Friday, October 24th.

I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal.

The European Union is charging META over its systems for handling illegal content on Facebook and

Instagram, the first allegation of its kind by the EU. The Block's executive arm, the European

Commission, claims that META fails to give users an easy way to flag legal content, like sexual

abuse of children and terrorist material. In addition, META is also accused of not giving users

adequate tools to appeal content moderation decisions when their posts are removed or accounts

suspended. The charges risk provoking the Trump administration, which has threatened tariffs in

response to the EU's

fines and digital regulations. Meta said the company disagrees with the accusations and will continue to negotiate with the commission.

Anthropic is expanding its use of Google Cloud's TPU chips in an attempt to grow its computing resources to train the next generation of its AI model,

Claude. Through the deal, Anthropic will have access to up to 1 million TPU chips, as well as

additional Google Cloud services. According to the company, it chose TPUs for their price

performance and efficiency, as well as the company's existing experience in training and

serving its models with TPUs.

And UK car manufacturing fell in September, in part due to the cyber attack that brought Jaguar Land Rover's operations to a standstill.

That's according to the industry body, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

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