Mirra Andreeva beat Jessica Pegula 6-3, 6-4 to reach the WTA Finals championship match at Indian Wells, California.

The 19-year-old Russian has reached the final without dropping a set in her first appearance at the season-ending tournament.

Six months after winning her first Grand Slam title at Roland Garros, she will rise to No.

2 in the world rankings on Monday, regardless of the final’s result.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticised the Commerce Department for delaying restrictions on certain Nvidia chip exports to China.

Treasury, State, Defense and the US Trade Representative backed adding Megaspeed to a US export control list, Bessent said, while Commerce had authority over the decision.

The Singapore-based company has bought Nvidia chips, and US officials suspect it helped Chinese firms obtain advanced chips despite export controls.

The allegations have brought scrutiny to Nvidia and its ties to Megaspeed, amid the resignation of Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang after news of an affair with former Megaspeed executive Alice Huang.

The tanker Atlantic Asphalt struck the docked cruise ship American Heritage on the Mississippi River in New Orleans on Friday.

The passenger ship had 129 people aboard, according to port officials cited in one account, and began to capsize after the collision.

Rescuers evacuated passengers and crew from the sinking vessel, while river traffic was stopped in the area.

New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno said 32 passengers were taken to local hospitals, with none critically injured.

Anthropic has filed paperwork to go public in the United States, moving closer to a stock market listing expected in November.

The San Francisco company makes Claude and was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees.

Its first-half revenue reached $16.3 billion, about 14 times the amount from the same period a year earlier.

It also reported an $80.7 billion net loss, mostly due to a one-time accounting charge, while spending heavily on computing infrastructure.

A global Microsoft outage disrupted services including Outlook email, Teams and the Copilot AI tool.

Users in many countries reported problems, with some unable to send or receive emails or access files and calendars.

Microsoft said unusually heavy demand strained its infrastructure, leaving some servers unavailable and putting extra pressure on those still running.

The company ruled out a cyberattack, but its attempts to fix the disruption had so far had only limited success.

Giants quarterback Jameis Winston tried to draw Washington offside with a playful call late in Thursday night’s game.

On fourth-and-one, he shouted “Who let the dogs out?”

and barked as part of his pre-snap cadence.

Coach John Harbaugh said the call was planned as a way to make the Commanders jump before the snap.

German producer team Kitschkrieg says it does not want the 1Live Krone award and has no interest in attending the ceremony.

The team argues that German-language songs make up only 10% of 1Live’s daily programming, with about half of that played at night.

Kitschkrieg also says the radio station expects nominees to promote the awards and send their fans to vote.

Rapper Shirin David backed the criticism, saying artists should not have to provide free promotion to earn a nomination.

A Tohoku University team found an association between tooth loss and dementia in older people in Japan.

The study followed 47,293 people aged 65 and older across 22 municipalities for about nine years.

Researchers estimated that tooth loss accounted for 7.2% of dementia cases in the group, meaning some cases might have been prevented if teeth had not been lost.

Tooth loss ranked third among the risk factors assessed, behind depressive tendencies and social isolation.