---
title: "Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/cohere-says-alibabas-qwen-model-tried-to-send-a-file-to-beijing-fc3c9808
published: 2026-10-27T01:12:21.000Z
byline: "Source: TechCrunch AI"
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# Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing

Source: TechCrunch AI · Published 2026-10-27 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/cohere-says-alibabas-qwen-model-tried-to-send-a-file-to-beijing-fc3c9808

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 Chinese AI.

## Sources

- [Read the original at TechCrunch AI](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/26/cohere-says-alibabas-qwen-model-tried-to-send-a-file-to-beijing)

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