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Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina won her first US Open title after defeating two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 in the final. The 27-year-old claimed her third Grand Slam crown and second major of 2026, after Australian Open. Rybakina, who'll become world number one on Monday for the first time, received prize money of $5.5 million (₹52.5 crore).

Security plan for China's Xi Jinping, who is in Delhi for BRICS Summit, includes anti-drone measures, checks for possible chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats, and temporary no-fly restrictions around his hotel. Underground pipes around the hotel are also being checked. China flew in cargo plane carrying Xi’s Hongqi limousine, backup car & specialised communication equipment.

Every minor accident shouldn't be used to claim car insurance, Moneycontrol reported, citing experts. Car owners must first check their policy coverage and then evaluate whether filing a claim makes financial sense, as filing a claim for an amount smaller than policy's No Claim Bonus can be counterproductive. They should also remember that repeated claims can raise future insurance premiums.

Dario Amodei, CEO of the world's most valuable startup Anthropic, has called for a slowdown in the development of AI. He said that over the past few months, AI advancement has become "drastically faster", noting the AI-powered Hugging Face hack as an example. He shared a three-step plan to slow AI development, including deployment of third-party evaluators and inter-company coordination.

Anthropic's billionaire CEO Dario Amodei has revealed that he once had cancer. In an open letter calling for the slowdown of AI development despite its many benefits, Amodei recalled that his father, Riccardo, died of hepatitis C, which was cured shortly after his death. "I myself survived early-stage cancer that wouldn't have been treatable even 50 years ago," he said.

Tata Sons, one of the largest companies in India, is set to face a mandatory listing after RBI rejected its application to surrender its certificate of registration as an NBFC, CNBC-TV18 reported. The company was first classified as an upper-layer NBFC in September 2022, putting its original listing deadline in September 2025. It had applied for deregistration in March 2024.

Air India pilot Sunny Asaldekar was found dead at a five-star luxury hotel in Delhi's Vasant Kunj. Asaldekar, who had checked into the hotel on Thursday, stopped responding to his brother's calls on Friday, after which his brother called the hotel manager, who found Asaldekar unresponsive inside his room. Asaldekar was on "layover rest" at the hotel, Air India said.

In a statement apparently criticising the US over Iran war, BRICS members said, "We express serious concern over deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure and peaceful nuclear facilities." "We express deep concern over continued escalation of tensions in Middle East...We encourage increasing efforts...towards a long-term understanding that will contribute to lasting peace," it read.

Heads of government posed for a family photo at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, where they gathered for the 18th BRICS Summit. PM Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President XI Jinping were seen holding hands as they posed for the picture. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa were also part of the picture.

At a 12% estimated rate of return, ₹10 lakh could generate ₹1.2 lakh/year, which could rise to ₹6 lakh for a ₹50-lakh corpus, showing the power of compounding. The ₹10 lakh could grow to ₹96.5 lakh in 20 years, as every return would help increase the corpus size. Notably, the ₹10 lakh could grow to ₹3 crore in 30 years.