Z.ai disables coding assistant feature after flaw exposed enterprise code upload risk

Chinese artificial intelligence company Z.ai had to disable several features of its ZCode coding assistant this week after a default setting was caught sending users’ local code repositories to Alibaba Cloud servers in China without their consent, raising fresh concerns for enterprises over how AI tools handle sensitive source code. The company apologised and said it had “completed the necessary remediation,” disabling the workflow responsible for generating and uploading local repository snapsh