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By Medha Singh (Reuters) -Shares of C3.ai Inc dropped 13% on Thursday after the software maker’s disappointing quarterly revenue forecast dented some of the recent euphoria around artificial intelligence-linked stocks. Most other AI-related small-cap stocks also fell, with analytics firm BigBear.ai, conversation intelligence firm SoundHound AI and Thai security firm Guardforce AI down between 2.8% and 5.7%. C3.ai, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI boom sparked by the […]

COLORADO SPRINGS (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden warned graduates of the Air Force Academy on Thursday that they will face an increasingly unstable world, with challenges from China to Russia to climate change, while pledging that American support for Ukraine would not waiver. “The world needs you,” Biden told the graduates in Colorado Springs. Biden praised the strength and unity of the NATO alliance and vowed that Sweden, in addition […]

By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – ATM maker Diebold Nixdorf filed for bankruptcy in Texas on Thursday, saying it had reached an agreement to reduce the company’s overall debt by $2.1 billion. The Ohio-based company entered bankruptcy with over $2.7 billion in debt, and its lenders have agreed to provide $517 million in new loans to fund the company’s bankruptcy, according to court documents filed in Houston bankruptcy court. […]

By Karolos Grohmann PARIS (Reuters) – World number seven Ons Jabeur played the odds in her French Open match against daredevil Oceane Dodin on Thursday to win 6-2 6-3 and march into the third round. Jabeur has endured a stop-start season in which she had minor knee surgery before winning the title in Charleston and skipping the Madrid Open with a calf problem. While it may not have been the […]

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) -The heir to Jordan’s throne will marry amid much fanfare on Thursday, in a glittering ceremony that the country’s leaders, long backed by the West as a stabilising influence in a volatile region, hope will reinforce local and global alliances. The 28-year-old Prince Hussein, named as heir by his father King Abdullah in 2009, will tie the knot with Saudi architect Rajwa Al Saif, 29, […]

(Reuters) – The United Nations is concerned about the continuous slowdown of the implementation of a Black Sea grain export deal between Russia and Ukraine, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Thursday. Only 33 vessels departed Ukrainian ports in May, less than half the number observed during April, Dujarric told reporters at a regular press briefing. He said the U.N. would engage with the parties toward full resumption of the deal. […]

By Ngouda Dione and Bate Felix DAKAR (Reuters) -Fresh unrest hit Senegal’s capital Dakar on Thursday after a court sentenced a leading opposition politician, Ousmane Sonko, to two years in jail for corrupting youth, undermining his chances of running for president next year. Sonko, 48, was accused of raping a woman who worked in a massage parlour in 2021, when she was 20, and making death threats against her. He […]

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU antitrust regulators will decide by July 6 whether to clear Amazon.com Inc’s $1.7 billion acquisition of the maker of robot vacuum cleaner iRobot Corp, according to a European Commission filing on Thursday. U.S. online retailer Amazon announced the takeover in August last year that will boost its portfolio of smart devices which include Alexa voice assistant, smart thermostats, security devices, wall mounted smart […]

COLORADO SPRINGS (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden warned graduates of the Air Force Academy that they will face an increasingly unstable world, with challenges from China to Russia to climate change. “The world needs you,” Biden told the graduates in Colorado Springs. (Reporting by Steve Holland; Writing by Heather Timmons, Editing by Caitlin Webber) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com