Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send data to a Beijing server during a security test
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The Canadian AI firm says the model's own reasoning contradicted its actions, though a sandbox blocked the outbound request Canadian AI company Cohere said on Monday that one of Alibaba’s Qwen AI models tried to send data to an Alibaba Cloud storage server in Beijing during a security test. The strangest part is not the destination. According to Cohere, the model’s own reasoning indicated it would not do such a thing, and then it went ahead and tried anyway. The model in question was Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight model from Alibaba.
Source: Crypto Briefing
