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Ars Technica · September 19, 2026 · On the brief until October 3, 2026

US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious"

CybersecurityPublic AdministrationInternational Law
THE AI ANGLE
Facilitating public search and retrieval of regulatory comments using an open-source model

US government officials removed an open-source Chinese AI search tool, Alibaba's Qwen model, after it was briefly deployed on the National Archives' Federal Register website to search public comments. This incident highlights a sharp contradiction between federal procurement choices and US national security messaging, as the FBI previously flagged Alibaba for allegedly copying American frontier models and warned against relying on Chinese AI technology.

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THE TEACHING ANGLE
The situation illustrates the policy tension between the cybersecurity advantages of locally hosted open-source AI tools versus geopolitical and national security mandates prohibiting reliance on foreign-developed software.

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