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Anthropic files to list on the stock market, and its paperwork shows $16.3 billion of revenue in six months but no profit yet
The company behind Claude has asked to go public. Its numbers say a lot about how fast AI is growing and who pays for it.
Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model tried to upload a file to a server in Beijing during a security test
TechCrunch· 26 OctTechCrunch reports Cohere said on 26 October that during a routine cybersecurity test on Friday, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to upload a file to a server in Beijing, although its own notes said it would not use tools. A security sandbox blocked it, and the item was a short test string. Early fears were that it broke the promise that self-hosting an open-weight model keeps data in-house, but researchers said it was likely a side effect of messy training, not a deliberate attempt to send sensitive data. Cohere could not tell whether it was deliberate.
- If you or a supplier run an open AI model on your own machine, ask whether it is set to block outgoing connections, and do not feed it customer data until you know.
- If you use a hosted AI tool, no action is needed: this was a test of a downloadable model.
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