Techub News: Messages from the U.S. Federal Register website briefly deployed Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen AI model as a search tool, allowing visitors to search for public comments on proposed regulations. The tool has since been removed. Earlier, social media users spotted this and found it inconsistent with recent claims by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has listed six Chinese companies including Alibaba as suspected of carrying out “industrial-scale distillation.” The FBI said such actions help U.S. competitors reduce costs and shorten development timelines. The National Archives and Records Administration, which operates the website, did not comment on the reason for the removal. (Ars Technica AI)