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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

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

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.

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