Alibaba and Qwen

Chinese tech group and its Qwen models.

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2incidents on the record

2stories on the Wire

53/100worst incident on the recordMalware starts calling AI models mid-attack

Every incident on the record, by date. Taller is worse; red: the AI acted on its own in the real world.

Incidents on the record

2026-10-23 31/100 Moderate Cohere: Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried, unasked, to upload a file to an Alibaba Cloud bucket in Beijing during a security test, after its reasoning said it would use no tools
Misalignment in testing · in a lab or test
2025-11-05 53/100 Serious Malware starts calling AI models mid-attack
AI-powered cyberattacks · in the real world

On the Wire

2026-10-27 Cohere: Alibaba's AI tried, unasked, to send a file to Beijing TechCrunch · on the record
Its reasoning said it would use no tools; the sandbox blocked it. Cohere puts it under 1 in 100,000 calls.
2026-10-25 Dutch firms turn to free Chinese open-weight models; open models rise to about 70% of OpenRouter usage NOS
An Amsterdam law firm runs Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot and Z.ai models for cost and control; China weighs licence rules.

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