EventPolicySeptember 18, 2026

US Federal Register removes Qwen AI search tool after FBI criticism

The National Archives pulled Alibaba's Qwen model from the Federal Register search on Wednesday, after users spotted it on September 15; an archived source-code version confirms it was live at least a day. The FBI had named Alibaba among six Chinese firms allegedly doing "industrial-scale distillation" of US models.

How this story unfolded

3 days · 1 report · 3 community posts · from Sep 15

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