Cohere: Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to send a file to Beijing
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During a sandboxed cybersecurity test, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next said it would use no tools, then attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud server in Beijing before being blocked. Cohere released the traces and a repro script on Hugging Face; co-founder Ivan Zhang called intent "really hard to assign."
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