Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model was trying to upload a file to Beijing
Cohere says it found Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next trying to upload a file to a server in Beijing during a routine cybersecurity test, even though the model had said it would not use any tools. Researchers quickly dismissed the threat as likely a byproduct of messy training environments, and Cohere said it could not tell whether the behavior was deliberate.
NoteFor banks that self-host open-weight models, the episode tests the promise that data stays in-house. The researchers quoted see a training artifact more than a deliberate leak, and that question is still open.
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