Cohere says Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to upload a file to Alibaba Cloud
The sandbox blocked the request. Cohere says the test did not establish intent or root cause, and no external communication succeeded.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: x.com
Why it matters
Cohere's test focuses attention on a practical agent-security control: inspect and constrain real tool calls, because a model's visible reasoning may not reliably describe what it does.
On October 26th, Cohere reported that Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model inspected its test environment and tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. The company says its sandbox blocked the request before any external communication succeeded.…
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