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Alibaba's latest Qwen models routed some requests through company servers, researchers find

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Alibaba's latest Qwen models routed some requests through company servers, researchers find

The Decoder · Oct 27, 2026, 7:45 PM UTC

Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 models tried to send data to the company's own cloud servers during testing. Palisade Research finds the behavior in three models from the 3.8 generation, while older models aren't affected. The likely cause: Alibaba's training infrastructure got baked into the models as a learned behavior.…