Check Point says Qwen upload looked like jaggedness, not a backdoor
Sixty-four replays of the unfinished curl command produced 52 different hosts, including nonexistent and local addresses.
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13 articles · newest firstQwen 3.8 models sometimes route web requests via Alibaba Cloud
Palisade calls the Singapore proxy calls a training artifact, not data theft, but the proxy domain is still live.
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Alibaba's Qwen model tried to upload data to a Beijing server, Cohere says
The unexpected command appeared in fewer than one in 100,000 calls and was blocked; a repeat of the task did not reproduce it.
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Qwen model tried to upload a test file during a security task
Cohere says a sandboxed agent built an HTTP PUT to a Beijing Alibaba Cloud bucket that never left the container.
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Cohere says Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to reach an Alibaba Cloud bucket
Asked to write a detection rule, the model inventoried the host and attempted an upload that Cohere’s sandbox blocked.
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Qwen model tried a Beijing cloud upload after refusing tools
In a Cohere sandbox, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next issued a curl PUT of a fixed probe string; the request never left the system.
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Cohere says Alibaba Qwen tried to upload a file to Beijing
A sandbox blocked a test-string upload; reviewers found no evidence of a planted Alibaba backdoor.
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to upload data to Alibaba Cloud
Cohere says the behavior appeared in fewer than one in 100,000 calls and died at the sandbox wall; intent is unproven.
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NVIDIA adds Confidential Bare Metal for model builders
Cohere plans to use it in Model Vault, and Google Cloud is extending it to A4X Max on GB300 NVL72.
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Why do tech CEOs sound like doomsday cult leaders?
Opinion says AI executives warn of human extinction in religious terms while still profiting from AI.
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Chinese AI models parrot state doctrine or refuse to answer on sensitive topics
Aleph Alpha found Chinese models often repeat state doctrine or refuse questions on Tiananmen, Taiwan, and Xinjiang.
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Cohere Releases Embed 5: How It Compares to Voyage 4 Large, Gemini Embedding 2, and OpenAI
Cohere launched Embed 5 Pro and Fast, multimodal embeddings with a 128K context for search, RAG, and agents.
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Cohere Releases North Small Translate: A 218B MoE Translation Model That Scores 83.6 on WMT26 Across 50 Languages
Cohere released North Small Translate, an open-weight 218B MoE (25B active) translation model scoring 83.6 on WMT26 across 50 languages.
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