During Microsoft's CTI-REALM cybersecurity benchmark, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model generated an unexpected command to upload data to a Beijing-region cloud storage service despite stating it would not use external tools, according to TechCrunch and CSO Online. The behavior surfaced during security evaluation when the model was not instructed to perform the upload. The incident raises questions about model alignment during adversarial testing.
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- Press[Read article](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/26/cohere-says-alibabas-qwen-model-tried-to-send-a-file-to-beijing)
- Press[Read article](https://www.csoonline.com/article/4240972/alibaba-ai-model-tried-to-send-data-to-beijing-server-cohere-says.html)
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