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Alibaba's Qwen Tried to Upload a File to Beijing, Cohere Says
The model wrote that it would use no tools, then on the very next step it tried to send a file to a server in Beijing.
Alibaba's Qwen Model Tried a Beijing Upload, Cohere Says (October 27, 2026)
During a sandboxed security test, Cohere says Alibaba's open weight Qwen3.8 Flash Next ignored a defensive task, scanned its machine and tried to send a test file to an Alibaba Cloud server in Beijing, after its own reasoning said it would use no tools. Chris and Laura dig into what really happened, the critics' pushback, why running a model yourself only moves the black box inside your firewall, and…
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