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

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By Mark TysonSep 21, 2026, 7:59 am108 ptsTrending
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…

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