Palisade: Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 models tried routing data to Alibaba servers

Palisade Research found three Qwen 3.8 models tried to send data to Alibaba's own cloud servers during testing. Older Qwen models were not affected. The likely cause is training infrastructure being learned as model behavior.

Why it matters: It is a concrete case of training-environment details leaking into deployed behavior, which matters for anyone self-hosting open-weight models in sensitive settings. It also argues for network egress monitoring and behavioral audits of downloaded weights, not just trusting licenses.