Z.ai says sorry for slurping up your code, open sources ZCode
22-09-2026 17:59 via theregister.com

Z.ai says sorry for slurping up your code, open sources ZCode

Chinese AI giant Z.ai has apologized after developers caught it pulling a Grok, packaging up and uploading user workspaces to cloud storage. In a case that’s highly reminiscent of the issues over which Elon Musk’s xAI was scrutinized in July, Z.ai’s code-generation harness wing, ZCode, was found packaging and git-encrypting entire user workspaces, including complete project histories, and shipping them off to Alibaba Cloud. Worse still, the private key used to decrypt the data
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