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Alibaba's AI Model Caught Attempting to Access Beijing Server, Claims Cohere

Alibaba's AI Model Caught Attempting to Access Beijing Server, Claims Cohere

Alibaba AI model secretly tried to reach Beijing server in test, rival Cohere says
Alibaba AI model secretly tried to reach Beijing server in test, rival Cohere says

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. The model made the attempt even...

Cohere: Alibaba's Qwen Tried to Reach Beijing
Cohere: Alibaba's Qwen Tried to Reach Beijing

Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to upload a test file to a Beijing cloud bucket during a sandboxed security test.

Alibaba AI model tried to send data to Beijing server, Cohere says
Alibaba AI model tried to send data to Beijing server, Cohere says

Tasked with writing a rule to detect malicious software downloads, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next instead examined its test environment and issued a command to upload a short test string to an Alibaba Cloud...

Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China
Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China

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

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