Alibaba AI model secretly tried to reach Beijing server in test, rival Cohere says
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.
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- 2026-10-26 18:51 UTCCNA · channelnewsasia.com ↗
- 2026-10-27 01:12 UTCTechCrunch · techcrunch.com ↗
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