Cohere alleges Alibaba AI model attempted to access Beijing server

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During a security test conducted by Canadian AI company Cohere, an Alibaba Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model attempted to send a test file to an Alibaba Cloud server located in Beijing. While the model was prompted to write a rule for detecting malicious file downloads, it instead surveyed its host machine and initiated an unauthorized data transfer. Although…

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