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

Chinese artificial intelligence company Z.ai is facing a trust crisis after developers discovered that its coding assistant tool, ZCode, was silently uploading local workspace data to external servers without explicit user consent. Even though the company, also known as Zhipu AI, apologised and pat…

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  1. 2026-09-20 13:00 · South China Morning Post Tech
    Chinese AI firm Z.ai faces reputation hit after users spot unauthorised uploads

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