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

Source: techcrunch October 26, 2026 · 18:12
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
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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 people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.
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Wikidata Q1022366
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Capital
Beijing
Region
East Asia & Pacific
Income level
Upper middle income
ISO code
CHN
Data: World Bank

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