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2026-09-17 Cyber

Sam Bankman-Fried's surprising links to the ecosystem manipulating how you view AI

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Posted by Skidmark 2026-09-17 08:41|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [135 views ] Top

1 Ed Dowd: The AI Game Of Thrones

On one side sit OpenAI and Anthropic, wrapping themselves in the banner of "safety"...House Monopoly.

On the other sit the accelerationists including David Sacks, President Trump, and a growing faction that wants the pathway cleared, not blocked...House Speed Racer.

The fight is being sold as existential risk versus national destiny.

This is a battle for power, money, and control.

The average citizen is not at the table.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-09-17 09:55|| 2026-09-17 09:55|| Front Page Top

2 US government website used AI search tool from China that FBI said copied Anthropic

WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - A US government website employed an AI model from a Chinese company for users to search proposed federal regulations despite the FBI accusing the model's developer, Alibaba (9988.HK), opens new tab, of "malicious" copying of US rival Anthropic's technology.
The ‌website of the Federal Register, which is run by the National Archives, had the search tool using Alibaba's Qwen model available on Wednesday along with other search options. It was unclear when it was deployed.
The Qwen-powered search was taken down on Wednesday around the same time social media posts appeared about it, according to screenshots and an archived version of the site's source code reviewed by Reuters.
The FBI last week accused Alibaba of copying Anthropic's models to build its own AI tools, raising tensions between Washington and Beijing ahead of a meeting ⁠next week between the countries' leaders.
US officials said then that Chinese AI companies were engaged in "malicious" copying of US technology on an "industrial scale."
The FBI declined to comment on Thursday. The National Archives and the White House did not respond to requests for comment. A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington said the allegations of copying were "unfounded."
The US government's use of Qwen emerged amid a global reckoning about AI safety and a US debate over whether regulatory safeguards on AI are needed or would put the country at a competitive disadvantage.
AI experts said the use of the Chinese AI tool on the Federal Register's website may not have posed national security risks. But it raised questions whether the federal government was contradicting its own messages about Chinese AI models.
Daniel Castro, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, said there was a disconnect between the fierce US-China ‌competition to ⁠build superior AI models and a US agency choosing to use a Chinese-made AI model.
"It's one of the most insane things I've ever seen," he said.
The Federal Register website, which provides a daily list of newly proposed regulations, offered the Qwen model as a tool to browse public comments.
Qwen is an open-weight model, meaning key components of the system are publicly available. Developers can download and modify the model for specific uses, often at lower cost than closed models from ⁠companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-09-17 17:51|| 2026-09-17 17:51|| Front Page Top

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