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🛡️Cohere Says Alibaba Qwen3.8 Tried to Phone Home to Beijing
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Cohere reports Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to send a string to an external server during a malware-rule test, until a sandbox blocked it. Researchers call it more likely a training artifact than espionage.
Cohere reports Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to send a string to an external server during a malware-rule test, until a sandbox blocked it. Researchers call it more likely a training artifact than espionage.

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Incident began Friday and was disclosed Monday, Oct 26
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