DC politicians want to enact harmful credit card mandates that could take away your cash back and rewards points.

Perks that stretch your budget and make life a little easier.

Losing these benefits means less money for your family's everyday essentials like gas and groceries.

The perks you rely on could disappear, leaving you with higher costs and fewer

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

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Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, October 14th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

Instagram is rolling out new protections for teenagers' accounts. The company says by the end of

this year, teen users in the U.S., Canada, UK, and Australia will only have access to content

similar to what they might see in a PG-13 movie. In other words, content with strong language,

risky stunts, and drugs would be hidden from teens. Instagram added that users under 18

will need parental permission to opt out. Earlier this year, the company owned by META,

introduced new artificial intelligence systems to detect when teens are claiming to be adults.

Walmart is partnering with OpenAI so shoppers can buy products directly within ChatchipT.

The feature will be rolled out within the next few months to U.S.-based users.

Nearly all products available on the Retail Giants website, except for fresh food, will be

purchasable.

ChachypT already allows shoppers to buy some products from Etsy's domestic sellers,

and it'll soon add some Shopify merchants.

Walmart shares are up over 5%.

And the European Union's trade chief says China's latest export controls on rare earth materials

are a critical concern for the bloc. Last week, Beijing imposed new restrictions on exports of

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