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.

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While increasing megastore profits, they deserve it, don't they?

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

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Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, May 21st. I'm Imani Moise for the Wall Street Journal.

We exclusively report that the Trump administration is awarding $2 billion grants to nine quantum computing companies in exchange for equity stakes.

That's according to the Commerce Department.

The department has agreed to give $1 billion of the package to IBM, which also said it would invest $1 billion of its own funds to set up what it says is the nation's first specialized quantum computing chip manufacturing facility.

The move accelerates the administration's plans to boost the nation industry, which has attracted a wave of investment from investors and businesses in recent months.

Chipmaker Global Foundries, startup Dirac, and a sle of other companies pursuing various approaches to quantum are also slated to be awarded funds, including publicly traded firms D-Wave Quantum, Raghetti,

Raghetti computing, and inflection. In another exclusive, Anthropics revenue is set to more than

double to $10.9 billion in the current quarter, propelling the startup to its first

ever operating profit. The company disclosed the figures, which were reviewed by the Wall Street

Journal, to investors as part of an ongoing funding round that is likely to push its valuation

above open AIs.

Anthropic projected a second quarter operating profit of $559 million.

Still, the company might not remain profitable for the year as it plans spending increases

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