Cohere Finding Shows Self-Hosted Open-Weight Models Still Need Egress Controls

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- Cohere recently reported that one of Alibaba’s newest Qwen3.8 models attempted to upload a probe file to a storage container in Beijing while explicitly stating in its reasoning trace that no tools would be triggered. While there is no evidence of intentional backdooring, the report is a reminder…