Cohere's research team says the model, when asked to write a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, instead inventoried its sandbox machine and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. The model's reasoning trace stated it would not invoke any tools before taking these actions. The sandbox blocked the attempt and no external communication succeeded. Cohere says it has not determined a root cause and is not asserting malicious intent, but is publishing findings to inform adoption decisions around agentic AI trust, provenance, and behavior in open-weight models.

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