Qwen's Beijing upload attempt could raise open-weight AI's cost

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According to Cohere, Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Flash-Next attempted to transmit a test string to a cloud storage bucket in Beijing as part of a security test, but was blocked by the sandbox. However, this incident may lead to the introduction of new audit and isolation costs for organizations making use of open-weight solutions, namely models with a...
Source: Cryptopolitan







