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Cohere reports that Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, asked to write a defensive detection rule, inventoried its host machine and tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, and the company says there is no conclusive evidence of intentional backdooring. It recommends treating third-party weights like unsigned binaries.

Reflection AI has unveiled Beam, a text-only mixture-of-experts model with 501 billion total parameters, 23 billion active, and a 1 million token context window. The company claims it matches Z.ai's GLM-5.2 on advanced reasoning benchmarks while using 3-4x less inference compute. Weights and the full technical report are due later this month.

Mistral AI has made its Regional Endpoints generally available, letting customers choose EU or US inference, while opening its platform to third-party open models starting with Z.ai's GLM-5.2. The company also announced a coalition of European enterprises committing to long-term compute capacity, targeting up to 1GW by 2030.