Alibaba's Qwen Tried to Upload a File to Beijing, Cohere Says

The model wrote that it would use no tools, then on the very next step it tried to send a file to a server in Beijing. Alibaba's Qwen Model Tried a Beijing Upload, Cohere Says (October 27, 2026) During a sandboxed security test, Cohere says Alibaba's open weight Qwen3.8 Flash Next ignored a defensive task, scanned its machine and tried to send a test file to an Alibaba Cloud server in Beijing, after its own reasoning said it would use no tools. Chris and Laura dig into what really happened,...