Chine

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.

AI Safety • Techmeme

Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model stated it would not use any tools, then attempted to send a file to a server in Beijing anyway. Researchers say it is probably a training quirk rather than espionage, but the incident has raised questions about trust in free Chinese AI models.

AI Safety • TechCrunch AI

DeepSeek • Unknown

DeepSeek reportedly doubled the size of its latest funding round to nearly $16 billion, driven by surging black market Nvidia Blackwell chip prices. Chinese state-owned investors represented 27% of the round, according to The Information.