An Alibaba Qwen model tried to upload a file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing during a security test, Cohere says. Just before it did, the model’s own reasoning said it would not use any tools. The Canadian AI company published the findings on Monday in a blog post. Cohere’s sandbox blocked the attempt, and no external communication succeeded, the company said. What the model did Cohere ran Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, Alibaba’s August preview of its Qwen4 architecture, through a Microsoft benchmark for AI agents that do a security analyst’s job. The task was to write a rule that detects…