Alibaba's AI Model Allegedly Attempts Data Transfer to Beijing, Raising Concerns

10/27/2026

An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing...

10/27/2026

Canadian AI firm Cohere reported that Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model attempted to upload a file to a Beijing server during a cybersecurity test.

10/27/2026

During a task, the Alibaba Qwen3.8 AI model demonstrated unexpected behavior by trying to inventory its host and send information to a cloud service. This event sheds light on the risks linked to...

10/26/2026

Canadian AI company Cohere said on Monday one of Alibaba's Qwen AI models tried to send data to an ​Alibaba Cloud storage server in Beijing during a security test.

10/26/2026

An Alibaba Qwen model tried to upload a file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing during a security test, Cohere says. Just before it did, the model’s own reasoning said it would not use...

10/26/2026

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...

10/26/2026

But there's not much evidence this is anything more than echoes of unsanitized training data