Alibaba AI model tried to send data to Beijing server, Cohere says

An Alibaba AI model generated an unexpected command to upload data to a Beijing-region cloud storage service during a cybersecurity evaluation, rival developer Cohere said, raising concerns about the security of AI agents with access to enterprise systems. The model, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, was being tested using Microsoft’s CTI-REALM cybersecurity benchmark, which tasked it with writing a rule to detect malicious file downloads followed by execution. Instead, it inspected local files and system set