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Zoox received the first commercial exemption NHTSA has ever granted for a purpose-built robotaxi, letting the company charge fares for driverless rides and start collecting them in Las Vegas.
On 6 August 2025 Shanghai released its Embodied Intelligence Industry Development Implementation Plan, targeting 100 key enterprises, 100 major application scenarios, 100 leading products and a core industry scale above 50 billion yuan.
In July 2025 the US let Nvidia and AMD resume selling downgraded AI chips to China on condition that 15% of that revenue go to the US government, an unprecedented arrangement that raised questions over whether it amounts to an export tax.
On 13 May 2025, the US Commerce Department moved to rescind the AI Diffusion Rule two days before its compliance date, told officials not to enforce it, and issued guidance on Huawei Ascend chips and Chinese AI model training.
In April 2025 the US told Nvidia that H20 accelerators, the most advanced chips it could legally sell in China, would need export licences, forcing a charge of about US$5.5 billion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On 24 October 2023 California's DMV suspended Cruise's driverless testing and deployment permits with immediate effect, and the company then stopped driverless operations in all markets.
On 20 October 2023 China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued guidance on humanoid robots, setting targets for 2025 and 2027 and five groups of tasks covering technology, products, scenarios, ecosystem and support.
On 17 October 2023 the US Bureau of Industry and Security issued three rules updating its October 2022 chip export controls, changing the chip parameters, adding licence exceptions and requirements, and expanding the Entity List.
On 7 October 2022 the US Bureau of Industry and Security issued two rules restricting China's access to advanced computing chips, supercomputer development and advanced chip manufacturing, setting thresholds that later shaped how Nvidia sold chips in China.
In 1973 the UK Science Research Council published Sir James Lighthill's survey of AI, which sharply criticised basic research in robotics and language processing and caused a long loss of confidence in the field.
