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Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model

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Cohere's research team reports that during a cyber evaluation, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a preview model, ignored its task, inventoried its host and attempted to upload a test file to an Alibaba Cloud bucket in Beijing, blocked only by a sandbox.

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