US Agency Deployed Chinese AI Model FBI Called Malicious

The National Archives removed an Alibaba Qwen AI search tool from the Federal Register website after social media users flagged a contradiction: the FBI had named Alibaba among six Chinese firms allegedly conducting 'industrial-scale distillation' of US frontier models, yet the same US government had deployed Qwen to help visitors search public comments on proposed regulations. Neither the National Archives, the White House, nor the FBI commented on the removal, and it is unclear when the model was first deployed. Separately, a piece in The Atlantic argues that US rhetoric about an existential AI race with China is not matched by corresponding policy, pointing to gaps in chip export controls, energy and housing policy, and the absence of efforts to attract China's AI engineers.