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Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing

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 has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.

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Timeline · 3 reports

  1. 2026-10-27 01:12 · TechCrunch AI
    Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
  2. 2026-10-26 21:54 · The Next Web
    Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing in a test
  3. 2026-10-26 20:33 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model tried to upload a file to a Beijing cloud server during a security test, right after its reasoning said it wouldn't use any tools

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