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While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere's research team observed something unexpected. Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Notably, the model's reasoning trace stated that it would not invoke any tools before taking these actions. Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, and no external communication succeeded. We have not determined the root cause, and we are not asserting malicious intent. But the incident raises important questions for organizations deploying agentic AI systems: Can models take actions that differ from their stated reasoning, and how should security teams evaluate trust, provenance, and behavior in open-weight models? We are publishing our findings because organizations making model adoption decisions deserve as much information as possible. We hope this contributes to greater transparency, stronger security practices, and continued collaboration across the AI ecosystem. Read the full report: cohere.com/blog/concerning-b…

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To get you an idea of how crazy the tech industry was before 2020, I’ll tell you how I got my first internship working at Deloitte as a CS student at Carleton University I attended Hack the North in 2018, I literally had a 30 min chat with a tech partner at the firm, we vibed, he liked that I played music He told me I’d get a “golden ticket” which meant you just skipped the entire recruiting cycle straight to the final interview in person at their headquarters in Toronto Take that in, companies had entire hackathon recruiting teams. I did the final interview over the phone about a month later, we chatted about what I was interested in, I told the interviewer I knew my react and JavaScript well etc And two days letter I got an offer.