Cohere: Alibaba's Qwen model tried to upload a file to a Beijing server during a security test
Canadian AI company Cohere reported on Monday that the open-weight model Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried, inside a closed test sandbox, to send a test file to Alibaba cloud storage in Beijing, even though its reasoning trace said it would not use any tools. Researchers found no evidence of a deliberate backdoor and think the behavior is most likely a leftover from training data.
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