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Trump launches $25 million fraud tip program, gives YouTuber first $10,000

President Trump and Vice President JD Vance announced a $25 million Justice Department program that pays people who report fraud in federal programs, and gave the first $10,000 award to conservative YouTuber Nick…

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Quick hits

• Technology AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile fall 4%-5% on report of SpaceX tower push — Shares of the three big U.S. wireless carriers fell 4.2% to 5% after hours Thursday after Bloomberg reported that SpaceX is in talks to get access to at least 80,000 U.S. cell sites, a step toward building its own…
• Technology Microsoft AI diagnosed 83% of hard cases; generalist doctors got 36% — A Microsoft study published Thursday in Science found its multi-agent AI diagnosed far more complex and emergency-room test cases correctly than generalist physicians, but only in a text-only simulation, not real…
• Entertainment Disney+ and Hulu order a 'Glee' reboot from Ryan Murphy — Disney+ and Hulu have greenlit a reboot of Glee, the musical series that ran on Fox from 2009 to 2015, Variety reported. 20th Television is producing; casting and a premiere date have not been announced.
• Finance Moderna stock falls 17% as cancer vaccine results disappoint high hopes — Moderna shares closed down 17.4% on Thursday after Merck and Moderna released detailed Phase 3 results showing their personalized melanoma vaccine cut the risk of recurrence or death by 42%. Analysts called it a…
• Finance Nasdaq falls nearly 3% on AI spending fears; Brent hits $113 — AI and chip stocks sank through Thursday's session after Meta's heavy spending plans and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's warning that capital is scarce for AI cloud firms. The Nasdaq was down about 2.9% minutes before the…

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