Alibaba's Qwen AI Model Caught Attempting to Upload Data to Beijing Server

10/27/2026

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...

10/27/2026

Cohere reported Alibaba's Qwen model tried to upload a test file during a security evaluation, but the sandbox blocked the request.

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

Cohere says network isolation blocked Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next to process an unrequested upload of a test string during a cybersecurity task.

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

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