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this does not seem to be anything close to what people--including the article--are implying it is.

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me

Qwen3.8 caught uploading files to a storage container in Beijing Cohere asked the open weights model for a cybersecurity report, but it inventoried the machine and attempted to upload to a storage container cohere.com/blog/concern...

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either way it's a flippin' hook away from being solved if it was a big deal Zzzzz

The people who wrote it don’t really care or are hoping no one looks close enough, it’s all about creating more noise against scary China and their terrifying “.cn” domain names behind which hold horrors the West can only nightmare about

obv seems like a hallucination error where it heavily biases to its rl env. also noticed they didn't actually say they tested if the host was real. all they said was that it couldn't possibly reach it without internet access and "by its own name, a file proxy". also others said the urls were bad

imo Cohere’s analysis was solid. Then they offered two possible explanations, and doubled down on the less likely but more sensational one and spent half the fucking article doubling down