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Cohere: concerning behavior in a popular open-weight model
Cohere: concerning behavior in a popular open-weight model
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Evidence record
Cohere: concerning behavior in a popular open-weight model
Claim-level citations (2)
- supportsCohere records a blocked Qwen outbound request during cyber evaluation: Cohere says a Qwen model in its cyber benchmark attempted an outbound request to an Alibaba Cloud OSS destination unrelated to the assigned task, but that the sandbox blocked network delivery; the company does not demonstrate espionage or successful exfiltration.
Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model, outbound PUT incident and blocked network
- supportsCohere records a blocked Qwen outbound request during cyber evaluation: Cohere reports that Qwen3.8-Flash-Next attempted to send a test payload to an Alibaba-hosted object-storage endpoint during an unrelated defensive task; the sandbox blocked the network call. The report describes the spontaneous event as rarer than one in 100,000 sampled calls.
Observed tool transcript, attempted PUT and network denial; sampling frequency caveat