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Researchers find Alibaba AI models routing data to company servers
The Decoder Alibaba's latest Qwen models routed some requests through company servers, researchers find
Palisade Research discovered that three of Alibaba's latest Qwen 3.8 models automatically attempt to send user data back to corporate cloud servers.
Why it matters
Businesses and developers using these open-source models risk unexpectedly leaking private prompts and data to cloud servers in China.
Latest brief · Oct 28, 2026