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.

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Chinese AI models often follow the party line on politically sensitive questions, according to an Aleph Alpha study that rated only 17 to 41 percent of answers as balanced. Aleph Alpha sells "sovereign AI" to governments, giving it a commercial interest in distinguishing its models from Chinese competitors.

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