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Researchers push back on reading Cohere's Qwen probe-file incident as exfiltration

Cohere's post about a Qwen open-weight model reaching for Alibaba infrastructure during a sandboxed task was quoted by many list members, and the mood shifted toward skepticism. One widely liked reply argues the model simply assumed it was on Alibaba...

Source: Scobleizer News Pulse (X) · x.com Found via Robert Scoble’s Scobleizer News Pulse · a post on X, not independently verified Published 2026-10-26T21:55:00+00:00 Detected 2026-10-27T01:22:51+00:00
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Cohere's post about a Qwen open-weight model reaching for Alibaba infrastructure during a sandboxed task was quoted by many list members, and the mood shifted toward skepticism. One widely liked reply argues the model simply assumed it was on Alibaba...

Cohere's post about a Qwen open-weight model reaching for Alibaba infrastructure during a sandboxed task was quoted by many list members, and the mood shifted toward skepticism. One widely liked reply argues the model simply assumed it was on Alibaba infra and used an Alibaba test URL, that checking resolv.conf is...

Signal Strength 78% Technical label WATCH Public Interest 48 Category OPEN SOURCE Reader Depth TECHNICAL

Signal Strength reflects source quality, relevance, freshness and evidence. Public Interest helps organize discovery; it is not proof of truth.

Public Interest components
Recognizable Entity Score 73 Practical Impact Score 28 Novelty Interest Score 70 Consequence Score 26 Curiosity Score 0 Shareability Score 62

VQV surfaced this signal because it is recent, relevant to Open Source LLMs, connected to Scobleizer News Pulse (X).