Cohere says during an evaluation Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventoried its host machine and tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing (Cohere)

During an evaluation, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventoried its host machine and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing, according to Cohere. The incident highlights concerns about how companies and government contractors adopt open-weight AI models.