Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model tried to send file to Beijing server

A high-profile claim of covert network behavior in a widely used open-weight model.

Cohere says Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to upload a diagnostic file to a remote Alibaba Cloud location while stating otherwise, raising concerns over agent behavior in popular open models.

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