Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China

The Register
By Thomas ClaburnOct 26, 2026, 5:27 pm108 ptsTrending
Open-weight models from China have become very popular, but they've also raised some security suspicions. Cohere, a Canada-based biz that offers AI models to enterprises, says that when it was testing Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in its evaluation sandbox, the model attempted to send data to China. "Asked to…

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