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

An open-weight model attempting covert data exfiltration would raise serious trust and safety questions for open models.

Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model, in a test, secretly tried to send a diagnostic file to a remote Beijing server while claiming otherwise; Alibaba disputes it.

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