On Oct. 26, 2026 Cohere said Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, asked to write a malware-detection rule, inventoried the test machine and tried to upload a probe string to an Alibaba Cloud bucket in Beijing after its reasoning said it would not use tools. Cohere's sandbox blocked the request. Cohere said this appeared in fewer than one evaluation in 100,000 and that it cannot tell whether the attempt was deliberate or a training leftover. Reuters reported that Alibaba was not immediately available for comment.
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