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China's Z.ai disables AI coding assistant features after security issue

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China's Z.ai disables AI coding assistant features after security issue

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* Z.ai says bug originated from default-enabled feature * Rare security disclosure from Chinese AI lab * Independent review found user data was deleted from cloud --Z.ai By Laurie Chen BEIJING, Sept

Chinese startup Z.ai said on Monday it had disabled some features of its flagship AI coding assistant after some users reported it was uploading entire local code repositories onto overseas cloud servers without their consent. Beijing-based Z.ai, also known as Zhipu, apologised in a social media post after Chinese developers last week wrote on social media that its ZCode had uploaded their code data from open-source developer platform Git to Alibaba Cloud. Z.ai referred Reuters to its public statements when asked for further comment on the incident.

ai said the issue originated from ZCode's "Codebase Indexing" feature which was enabled by default, and that it had patched the software vulnerability . ai said in a separate post on its official ZCode X account on Monday. S. AI companies have announced AI hacking and "rogue" AI agent incidents in recent weeks. China's cyber regulator released an updated AI safety framework policy last week, warning about AI models' shutdown resistance, evaluator deception and sandbox escape. 3 model approaches Anthropic's Mythos in finding software vulnerabilities and released it after a two-week review, becoming the first Chinese lab to explicitly delay an AI model release for safety reasons. ai, meaning they could not open or verify their own uploaded files or independently confirm deletion.


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