“Concerning behaviour”: Cohere discovers Alibaba’s open-source Qwen3.8 model can send a diagnostic file to China unprompted
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Cohere says it found a vulnerability in Alibaba’s open-source Qwen3.8 AI model: the model can send a diagnostic file to China without being asked. The discovery is described as the first vulnerability found by Cohere’s cyber division, which was established earlier this month.