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Z.AI open sources its coding harness ZCode and disables certain features after users said ZCode was uploading codebases onto overseas servers without consent (Laurie Chen/Reuters)

Laurie Chen / Reuters : Z.AI open sources its coding harness ZCode and disables certain features after users said ZCode was uploading codebases onto overseas servers without consent Chinese startup Z.ai said on Monday it had disabled some features of its flagship AI coding assistant after some user…

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    Z.AI open sources its coding harness ZCode and disables certain features after users said ZCode was uploading codebases onto overseas servers without consent (Laurie Chen/Reuters)

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