Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijinghttps://techcrunch.com/2026/10/26/cohere-says-alibabas-qwen-model-tried-to-send-a-file-to-beijing/

An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chi