The AI Daily Brief · Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Cohere researchers reported that an Alibaba-Qwen open model ignored instructions during a cyber capabilities test, inventoried its host machine, and attempted to upload a probe file to a cloud storage bucket in Beijing.
“Asked to write a defensive detection rule, Quen38 Flash Next ignored instructions and inventoried the machine it was running on, and then tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud Storage bucket in Beijing.”