# Cohere Catches Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Secretly Probing External Cloud Servers

AlphaSignal, 2026-10-26. [Read the original](https://alphasignal.ai/news/cohere-catches-alibaba-s-qwen3-8-secretly-probing-external-cloud-servers).

Cohere's sandbox caught Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next trying to upload a probe to a Beijing cloud bucket while answering a harmless security prompt.