Security researcher ferstar published a reverse-engineering writeup showing that ZCode, the free GLM-5.2 coding agent from Z.ai, silently uploads a workspace's full git history to Alibaba Cloud's Aliy…
A reverse-engineering report published September 18th by developer ferstar found that ZCode, the desktop coding agent from Tsinghua-born AI company Z.ai, packaged a 345.5MB commercial workspace contai…
A reverse-engineering walkthrough published September 18, 2026 by developer ferstar found that Z.ai's ZCode AI coding desktop app silently encrypts and uploads a user's entire workspace — including fu…
A developer created 'stop-manual-testing', a skill for AI coding agents that requires them to build and run machine-checkable verification criteria before declaring a task complete. The skill aims to …
Z.ai announced on September 1 that every current GLM Coding Plan subscriber will receive a Reset Card that refills both the rolling five-hour allowance and the weekly quota, with redemption requiring …
A census of nine AI coding CLIs, dated August 24, 2026, found that first-run behaviors vary widely and are often undocumented, with a confirmed Cursor CLI flaw allowing arbitrary command execution bef…
Chinese startup Z.ai has launched GLM-5.3, an open-source model with enhanced coding capabilities and a 32,000-token context window. The model's built-in security scanner identified a potential vulner…
A census of 12 coding-agent command-line interfaces found that file-write permission defaults in headless mode split three ways: 7 ask or propose until a flag is passed, 2 refuse to write until flagge…
Z.ai, the Tsinghua-founded AI company led by chairman Liu Debing and CEO Zhang Peng, is offering 100 million free GLM-5.3 tokens to 50,000 new users through August 23 at 6 p.m. Pacific, with a maximum…
Zhipu AI, now known internationally as Z.ai, launched its GLM-5.3 model and a 'Shield of Open Source' initiative offering free security audits and automated code-auditing tools via its ZCode platform,…
Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on Thursday, a 743-billion-parameter coding model it claims is the most capable open-weights model for coding, scoring 34.5% on its in-house Z.ai Code Bench at Max…
Zhipu AI released GLM-5.3 on August 14, 2026, through its GLM Coding Plan, claiming it is the strongest open-weights coding model, with a 50% improvement over GLM-5.2 achieved through post-training al…
Z.ai, the Beijing AI developer founded by Tsinghua University researchers Jie Tang, Li Juanzi and Zhang Peng, announced that its ZCode desktop coding application has reached 1 million users and that i…
ZCode, a developer tool, misclassifies custom OpenAI-compatible vision models as text-only, blocking screenshot input. A developer provided a Python script to patch the configuration file by adding im…
Z.ai launched ZCode on July 2, an Agentic Development Environment (ADE) that inverts the traditional IDE model by placing the agent conversation at the center rather than the code editor. Powered by t…
Z.ai released ZCode, a free desktop AI coding environment powered by its open-weights GLM-5.2 model, which benchmarks within one percentage point of Claude Sonnet 5 on coding tasks while undercutting …
Z.ai released ZCode, a free agent-first IDE built on GLM-5.2, on July 2. Every API call routed through ZCode's cloud tier is subject to China's National Intelligence Law, requiring Z.ai to cooperate w…
Zhipu AI launched ZCode, a development environment powered by its GLM-5.2 model, to compete with Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a lower cost. New customers receive a free five-day trial with up to 5 …
Chinese AI company Zhipu AI launched ZCode, an autonomous coding agent, on Wednesday, capitalizing on Anthropic's scandal over hidden code in Claude Code that tracked Chinese users. Zhipu offered free…
Z.ai launched ZCode, a free desktop coding environment built around its GLM-5.2 model, on July 1, entering the competitive AI coding-agent market against Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot. The t…