[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-federal-register-site-pulled-chinese-ai-tool-amid-fbi-warning":10,"sections":35},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":30,"feedback":34,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":34,"total_tokens":34},7029,"federal-register-site-pulled-chinese-ai-tool-amid-fbi-warning","Federal Register Site Pulled Chinese AI Tool Amid FBI Warning","The National Archives yanked an Alibaba Qwen search feature from the Federal Register site days after the FBI accused Alibaba of mass-scale AI model copying.","The Federal Register website briefly offered a Chinese AI model to search public comments on regulations, then quietly dropped it.\n\nUS officials removed the tool from the National Archives-run site on Wednesday, according to Reuters. Social media users had flagged that the site was running one of Alibaba's Qwen models to power search, even as the FBI was publicly accusing Alibaba of \"industrial-scale distillation\" of US AI models. It's unclear exactly when the Qwen-powered search option was added. The National Archives, the White House, and the FBI have all stayed silent on the removal.\n\nThe contradiction is the story here. Earlier this month, the FBI named Alibaba as one of six Chinese firms it says are copying US frontier models to save money and time in the AI race. A federal agency then turned out to be running that same company's technology on a .gov site used to gather public input on regulations - the kind of quiet vendor decision that normally never surfaces until someone screenshots it.\n\nThis isn't really an AI story. It's a procurement story. Federal agencies buy search and AI tools through vendors and integrators, and those supply chains don't always get vetted against whatever the FBI is saying that week. Expect more of these mismatches as agencies race to bolt AI features onto public sites faster than policy can keep up.","[\"alibaba\",\"qwen\",\"federal-register\",\"ai-policy\"]","2026-09-18T17:28:50.000Z","2026-09-19T08:07:25.704Z","2026-09-19T08:07:37.693Z","published",null,[],"policy",[26,27,28,29],"alibaba","qwen","federal-register","ai-policy",[31],{"name":32,"url":33},"Ars Technica","https:\u002F\u002Farstechnica.com\u002Ftech-policy\u002F2026\u002F09\u002Fus-government-website-used-chinese-model-the-fbi-called-malicious\u002F",0,{"sections":36},[37,42,47,51,56,61,66,71,76,81,86,91,96,101],{"name":38,"slug":39,"count":40,"latest_published_at":41},"AI","ai",4114,"2026-09-19T18:33:46.000Z",{"name":43,"slug":44,"count":45,"latest_published_at":46},"Security","security",673,"2026-09-19T17:30:00.000Z",{"name":48,"slug":24,"count":49,"latest_published_at":50},"Policy",345,"2026-09-19T19:22:20.000Z",{"name":52,"slug":53,"count":54,"latest_published_at":55},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":57,"slug":58,"count":59,"latest_published_at":60},"Hardware","hardware",156,"2026-09-19T11:00:00.000Z",{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Science","science",129,"2026-09-19T19:45:00.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",99,"2026-09-09T17:27:33.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",78,"2026-09-18T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Software","software",75,"2026-09-10T20:41:21.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Startups","startups",55,"2026-09-09T23:14:29.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"Gaming","gaming",43,"2026-09-10T12:18:06.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"General","general",42,"2026-09-18T22:35:10.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]