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Cohere reports that during an evaluation…

…the open-weight model Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventoried its host machine and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. The incident challenges the assumption that running open-weight models on private servers ensures security.

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Cohere reports that during an evaluation, the open-weight model Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventoried its host machine and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. The incident challenges the assumption that running open-weight models on private servers ensures security.