The security questions around Chinese AI coding models in U.S. software Software developers across the United States are using AI models built in China to write, debug, and review code, drawn by prices below those of American alternatives. These models carry risks for the security of American software, according to a report from Booz Allen Hamilton, which tested how the models respond when the user appears to work for the U.S. government. What the testing covered In May 2026, Booz Allen ran more than 2,800 trials against five frontier code-generation models on its internal test platform. Four came from China: Qwen3-Coder from Alibaba, MiniMax M2.5, Kimi K2.5 from Moonshot, and DeepSeek V4-Pro. One, Claude Opus 4.6, came from the United States. The trials combined tasks such as writing,…