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

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What happened

The Federal Register website briefly used an open source Chinese AI search tool.

Key facts

  • Reported by Ars Technica and published Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:28:50 UTC.

Why it matters

Platform, chip and AI decisions set the terms other companies have to build on, so a single announcement here tends to ripple through products, supply chains and regulation.

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  1. Microsoft executive called OpenAI's web scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history'

  2. Brendan Carr’s FCC is more worried about who The View interviews than foreign governments owning Paramount

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

  4. A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers

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