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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.
Summary by CanalMarket Global News. Read the full story at the original source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/26/cohere-says-alibabas-qwen-model-tried-to-send-a-file-to-beijing/