Z.ai's ZCode Crisis Exposes AI Coding's Enterprise Trust Gap

Z.AI Open-Sources Coding Tool After Backlash Over Silent Data Uploads

Z.AI Open-Sources Coding Tool After Backlash Over Silent Data Uploads - The Chinese startup faced intense scrutiny after users discovered its ZCode programming framework secretly encrypting and uploading their workspaces to the cloud

Z.ai's ZCode crisis exposes AI coding's enterprise trust gap

Chinese AI developer Z.ai has open-sourced its ZCode coding tool and is preparing a zero-data-retention option for its Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform after ZCode was found packaging local code repositories and attempting to upload them to the cloud.

Zhipu open-sources ZCode after data dispute and plans no-retention controls for MaaS

Zhipu has open-sourced the code behind ZCode on GitHub after apologizing over a data-handling dispute and completing a remediation process, IT Home reported. The repository describes ZCode as an AI coding workbench with desktop, browser and terminal-agent components. Zhipu also said its MaaS platform will soon introduce a feature that allows users to apply for […]

Developers Complain After Z.ai’s ZCode Sends Data To Cloud

Developers say ZCode sent details on their coding projects to external cloud server without their knowledge or consent Read more →

Devs say Chinese AI company silently uploaded hundreds of megabytes of local workspace data, company apologizes — Z.AI, the firm behind the GLM models, didn’t ask for user consent and made 564 attempts to exfiltrate 313MB archive

The second-largest AI company in China is having to work frantically to patch up its reputation, reports the South China Morning Post. Z.ai's firefighting exercise began after a number of prominent devs raised flags about their local files and data being uploaded to online servers without their consent. Z.ai has started to publicly address all the security and privacy concerns that have been stoked by the dev/blogger findings in recent days. On …