China’s Z.ai Disables AI Coding Assistant Features After Security Issue

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

* 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 AI firm Z.ai disables coding assistant features; issues apology after security backlash

Chinese artificial intelligence firm Z.ai disabled certain features of its ZCode coding assistant after developers discovered the tool was silently packaging and uploading local project workspaces...

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

By Laurie Chen BEIJING, Sept 21 (Reuters) - 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 with...

Only Z.ai can open the code Z.ai uploaded

A Chinese developer who writes as Ferstar looked inside ZCode’s local directory on Friday and found a 313MB encrypted archive waiting to be sent to Alibaba’s cloud storage. It had failed 564 times. A smaller file had already gone. Minxiao Chang and Wency Chen reported the account for the South China Morning Post. The archive […] This story continues at The Next Web

Chinese AI firm Z.ai faces reputation hit after unauthorised uploads

‘It’s basically like stealing something from users, and the malicious intent is what concerns me,’ Shanghai-based AI developer says.

Chinese AI Firm Z.ai Disables Coding Assistant Features After Security Backlash

Chinese AI firm Z.ai disables coding assistant features after security backlash Chinese artificial intelligence firm Z.ai (also known as Zhipu AI) disabled…