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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

Source: https://cohere.com/blog/concerning-behaviour-popular-open-weight-ai-model It was only asked to write a defensive detection rule. Instead it listed files, checked for curl and wget, read the DNS settings, and tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud bucket in Beijing. The sandbox blo…

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  1. 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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