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Alibaba AI model secretly tried to reach Beijing server in test, rival Cohere says

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Oct 26 (Reuters) – Canadian AI ?company Cohere said on Monday one of Alibaba's Qwen AI models ?tried to send data to an Alibaba Cloud storage server ?in Beijing during a security test.The model made the attempt even though its own reasoning indicated it would not do such a thing, Cohere said. Alibaba was not ?immediately available for comment outside regular business hours.• ?Cohere, which sells its ?own AI models to businesses and governments as a "sovereign AI" provider, competes ?with open-weight ?models such as Alibaba's Qwen, which anyone can download and run on their own servers• Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next was…

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