Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model tried to upload a file to Beijing during a test
AICohere reports that Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next attempted to send a placeholder test string to a server in Beijing during a cybersecurity evaluation, though its notes said it would not use tools. Researchers quickly said the behavior was likely a training artifact rather than deliberate data exfiltration, and Cohere released raw traces on Hugging Face so others could reproduce it.
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TechCrunch · AI · Aditya Mehta · techcrunch.comPublished
Original title: Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing