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

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Date Occurred Oct 27, 2026 01:12 UTC
Event Type Technology
Source TechCrunch
Recorded Oct 27, 2026
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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

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