Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees, but I don't really need it.

Infliction is killing me!

But who cares? Big retailers are making record profits!

That's why we support the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill!

See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll.

This bill would cut the vital resources they need.

While increasing megastore profits, they deserve it. Don't they?

Tell Congress, stop the Durban Marshall money grab for corporate megastores.

Paid for it by the Electronic Payments Coalition.

Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Friday, May 1st. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal. Investment firm, COTU Management, is known for its big bets on tech. Now, we exclusively

report that the $70 billion investment firm is launching a new venture to buy land to be developed

for AI data centers. People familiar with the matter say tens of billions of dollars could be spent on the

effort, called Next Frontier. The new firm is already at work on one of its first big projects,

buying land in Indiana for a data center campus. KOTU has large stakes in Anthropic and OpenAI,

and it has invested heavily in companies that supply infrastructure for data centers,

including turbine maker GE-Vernova and power producer Vistra.

In another WSJ exclusive,

CBO Global Markets is slashing 20% of its staff and tightening its return to office policies

as its latest move in a plan to sharpen its focus on key businesses.

According to a memo seen by the Wall Street Journal, about a fifth of CBO's global workforce

has been notified that they have been laid off. The company is also offering a voluntary

retirement program to U.S. and Canadian workers who are at least 55 years old, have been

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