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 Tuesday, March 10th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

Meta plans to acquire Moldpuk, a social networking platform for AI agents. The tech giants said

Tuesday the Moldpuk team will join its Super Intelligence Labs division. The deal marks the Facebook

and Instagram owner's latest move to scale up its AI-related talent and capabilities.

On MULPUC, AI agents can post, comment, and upvote posts, while human users can read along but

can't post. A META spokesperson said the MULPbook team joining it opens up new ways for AI agents

to work for people and businesses. META did not disclose the financial terms of the deal.

NVIDIA is investing in Miramurati's Thinking Machines Lab via a multi-year partnership.

The startup, founded last year by OpenAI's former CTO, will deploy at least one gigawad of

Nvidia's cutting-edge chips to train and serve its frontier AI models.

Thinking machines aims to create AI systems that work with humans rather than operating autonomously.

The size and structure of the investment couldn't be learned.

The partnership is Nvidia's latest move to support the AI industry's up-and-comers.

And Airbnb has hired a former Uber executive to

lead its global operations. The short-term rental company has ambitions to become a one-stop shop

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