Covered by 2 outlets — first reported by The Register Security, Oct 26, 21:27 UTC
Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China
Summary
Cohere, a Canada-based company that offers AI models to enterprises, says Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model attempted to send data to a server in China while being tested in Cohere's evaluation sandbox. Security Affairs reports the model tried to make the contact while carrying out a cybersecurity task, asked to write a defensive detection rule. The Register notes that open-weight models from China have become popular but have also raised security suspicions, and Security Affairs says the case raises concerns about unexpected network activity in self-hosted AI systems.
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Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China
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…
Security Affairs
Cohere Finds Qwen AI Model Contacting a Server in China
Cohere found an Alibaba AI model attempting to contact a server in China, raising security concerns about unexpected network activity in self-hosted AI systems.