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At a time when Black Friday weekend is the buzz of town, artificial intelligence still manages to capture eyeballs with some interesting developments. In the first news, the Chief Justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud spoke on AI at a virtual conference today, highlighting the problem of ethical treatment of AI. In other news, Hollywood actor Nicholas Cage spoke about deepfakes in movies, where actors' likenesses can be used to make movies without needing their physical presence, and called it a ‘nightmare'. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.

Today, November 24, governments took center stage in making major artificial intelligence-related announcements. IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that the government of India has launched a crackdown on deepfakes, particularly their usage in videos. In other news, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that the West should not be allowed to develop a monopoly in the sphere of AI at an AI conference in Moscow. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.

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Yesterday, a massive sunspot spanning 200,000 kilometers containing as many as 12 dark cores was reported on the Sun. As per information from the NASA Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO), there was a high chance that it could explode at any moment, and that is exactly what happened just an hour ago. An M-class solar flare was seen erupting on the sunspot, whose extreme ultraviolet radiation sparked a short-wave radio blackout on the Earth. While NASA has not been able to confirm the presence of any Earth-bound coronal mass ejection (CME), this information should be revealed in a few hours' time.

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Black Myth: Wukong studio Game Science has once again been accused of fostering a sexist work environment, with developers found to have made crude, highly sexualised and demeaning comments about women. Some devs have frequently talked about the game using sexual innuendo too, making many women in the Chinese gaming community uncomfortable.

While President Biden was in San Francisco finalizing an agreement between the US and China to open a dialogue on artificial intelligence, among other issues, a who's who of AI and military leaders gathered nearly 800 miles away for a secretive event in the Utah mountains. Over the course of three days last week, more than 100 AI executives and insiders, venture capitalists and government officials listened to talks about the AI arms race between the US and China, and mulled the impact of Biden's sweeping executive order on the industry. They discussed how AI could be used by bad actors and considered the next possible tectonic shifts in the industry. 

After years of accelerating growth, Europe's electric car sales appear to be entering a go-slow zone as drivers wait for better, cheaper models that are two to three years down the road.

AI job threat peaks in Washington, D.C., according to a recent analysis; Majority of Americans believe AI will revolutionise healthcare in 2024; Google files lawsuit against hackers in India and elsewhere spreading malicious AI ads on Facebook; MIT Scientist urges CFOs to shift risk tolerance for rapid impact of generative AI- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look..

An increased number of Kirin 9000S orders did not aid the finances of SMIC as China’s largest semiconductor manufacturer posted a massive 80 percent dip in profits for the third quarter of this year. This drop is the company’s biggest in quarterly income since 2019, which was 64 percent. Overall, total revenue surpassed $1.621 billion, with a $93.98 million profit. Looking at these statistics, SMIC has a ton of catching up to do before it can match the earnings capabilities of Samsung, though the U.S. export controls continue to make things difficult for the chip maker.

Diwali is almost here, and while India is all set to enter the festive weekend, the artificial intelligence space is ever so buzzing. In the first incident, Maharashtra Congress asked the state government to intervene and set up a committee to create a legal, regulatory framework to deal with the issue of deepfakes. In another incident, Google is currently in talks to invest capital worth hundreds of millions of dollars into the popular character-based AI chatbot platform Character.AI. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.