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In March 2025 Shenzhen published a 2025–2027 action plan for embodied intelligence robots, targeting an industry scale above 100 billion yuan, more than 1,200 cluster companies and a group of large, fast-growing firms.
In March 2025 Beijing issued a three-year action plan for embodied intelligence, setting targets for technology breakthroughs, products, companies and mass production, including a goal to be the first city to exceed 10,000 units produced.
On 14 February 2025, the UK minister for science, innovation and technology announced at the Munich Security Conference that the AI Safety Institute would become the AI Security Institute, focusing on security-related risks and adding a criminal misuse team.
In February 2025 a Delaware federal judge held that Ross Intelligence's use of Westlaw headnotes to train its legal AI tool infringed Thomson Reuters' copyright, and rejected its fair use defence — described as the first substantive AI copyright ruling.
France and India co-hosted the Paris AI Action Summit on 10–11 February 2025, where 60 countries and international organisations signed a statement on inclusive, sustainable AI. The United States and the United Kingdom did not sign.
On 2 February 2025 the first binding parts of the EU AI Act took effect: bans on certain AI practices and requirements on AI literacy. Guidelines on the banned practices followed two days later.
On 20 January 2025, Executive Order 14148 revoked Executive Order 14110 of 30 October 2023, and a separate order signed on 23 January 2025 replaced its policy direction with a push for American AI dominance and a 180-day action plan.
A US Commerce Department interim final rule, effective 13 January 2025, that required licences for exporting advanced computing chips and the model weights of the most advanced AI models, and divided the world into three tiers of access.
In January 2025 the U.S. Commerce Department placed Zhipu AI, a Tsinghua University spin-out and one of China's AI tiger startups, on its Entity List. The company rejected the decision and later listed in Hong Kong.
On 2 December 2024, BIS added export controls on high-bandwidth memory, 24 types of chipmaking equipment, three software tools and 140 Chinese entities, widening restrictions on China's advanced-node semiconductor production for military and AI uses.
On 28 October 2024 the Open Source Initiative released version 1.0 of its Open Source AI Definition, a community-designed standard for what may be called open source AI.
On 15 October 2024 Anthropic published version 2.0 of its Responsible Scaling Policy. It added capability thresholds for autonomous AI research and development and for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) weapons assistance, and made Jared Kaplan the Responsible Scaling Officer.
In September 2024, NHTSA announced a consent order requiring Cruise to pay a $1.5 million penalty and accept two years of stricter crash reporting after it filed incomplete reports.
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Senate Bill 1047 on 29 September 2024. The bill would have required safety safeguards for large AI models and created a Board of Frontier Models.
In August 2024 a US judge let illustrators suing Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt and Runway AI pursue some copyright and trademark claims, while leaving the core training-data question undecided.
The EU Artificial Intelligence Act took effect on 1 August 2024. It sets one risk-based rulebook for AI across EU countries, banning social scoring and requiring chatbots to disclose themselves, with rules for general-purpose models to follow.
In June 2024 the RIAA announced that major record companies had sued Suno and Udio, two AI music generation services, alleging that building them required copying decades of copyrighted sound recordings.
On 21 May 2024, ten countries and the European Union signed the Seoul Declaration at the AI Seoul Summit, one of three outcome documents that tied government statements to the Frontier AI Safety Commitments and the Hiroshima Process International Code of Conduct.
On 17 May 2024 Google DeepMind published a framework of protocols for identifying AI capabilities that could cause severe harm, evaluating models against defined Critical Capability Levels, and applying mitigations when a model reaches them.
On 2 April 2024 China's cyberspace administration began publishing which generative AI services had completed filing, and required launched apps to display the model name and filing number they use.
The European Parliament approved the AI Act on 13 March 2024 and the Council of the EU formally adopted it on 21 May 2024; the Council described the act as the first worldwide rules on AI.
