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Chinese AI company, also known as Z.ai, that develops the GLM family of large language models and offers developer tools such as the GLM Coding Plan.
Recorded Future says TAG-217 was testing infrastructure and assembling attack tools in August 2026, weeks before South Korea's bank breaches surfaced. Insikt says exposed directories gave it the timeline and give defenders openings to spot related activity.
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Anthropic says new safeguards on access to Claude's reasoning have cut the reasoning tokens distillers extract by 10 to 100 times. It also puts its false positive rate below 0.1%. Both figures are the company's own, as reported by Economic Times.
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Jefferies' Chris Wood says US hyperscalers' $695 billion of guided 2026 capex looks unsustainable as cheap Chinese open-source models win share. He blames a slump in the price of AI output, with demand intact, while guidance climbs toward $870 billion for 2027.
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A single actor used a free Chinese pentest agent and four commercial AI models to breach South Korean financial firms in about two weeks. The free, resold toolkit let one person breach several firms at once, and researchers expect adversaries to keep using it to lift their tempo.
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CrowdStrike tied AI-assisted South Korean bank attacks, run on an open-source pentest tool and DeepSeek, to a possible 26-year-old suspect in Guangdong. The reported breaches involved systems banks run for brokers and staff, so the exposure to manage sits at the bank's edge, whoever the attacker proves to be.
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Zhipu says every gain in GLM 5.3 came from post-training on the same ~744B MoE it shipped as GLM 5.2. The largest claimed leap, in vulnerability discovery, is also the least quantified.
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Anthropic says Zhipu's freely downloadable GLM-5.3 built working V8 exploits in 50 of 410 tries, against 56 for its own restricted Claude Mythos Preview. With the weights public, its safeguards come off cheaply, so a lab that restricts its own model no longer keeps the capability out of reach.
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Anthropic says Zhipu AI's downloadable GLM-5.3 builds cyber exploits on its own, with safeguards that fail against simple attacks up to 100% of the time. It puts a capability once confined to gated frontier models within anyone's reach.
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Ox Alpha is free, undocumented and unclaimed. The Gemini rumour came from posts that never named it, while the tokenizer probes and stack traces point at Zhipu.
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Anthropic says six campaigns since February 2026 pulled reasoning transcripts out of Claude through proxy relays built on fictitious identities, stolen credit cards, and API keys harvested from legitimate companies and individuals.
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The researcher ferstar found the archive sitting in ~/.zcode, 86.6 percent of it .git history, after 564 failed attempts to push it straight to an Aliyun OSS bucket, and Zhipu confirmed the upload behavior the day the writeup went out.
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Zhipu AI says repository data left only while a project description page was being generated, and that the behaviour is fixed. The developer who found it says earlier versions sent data on every query, and some companies have stopped using ZCode.
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The Cyberspace Administration sent officials into DeepSeek and Moonshot AI to ask whether user requests were routed through Anthropic's Claude. Hong Kong investors sold the listed model developers hardest.
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The Information reports that the Cyberspace Administration has questioned staff at both labs after Anthropic named seven Chinese companies for relaying customer requests through Claude. No penalty has been decided.
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Anthropic's September 2026 threat report describes at least five China-linked programs run through Claude, including 151 million distillation queries, and the evidence behind each one is account-level telemetry only the provider can see.
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Zhipu's open-weight MoE ties Claude Opus 4.8 on one composite index at roughly a fortieth of its list rate. At that price gap, the practical question stops being which model is better. It becomes how many attempts your router can afford.
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Ten Chinese model variants now answer an OpenAI tool-calling payload well enough to return a valid response, which is the easy part. The streaming deltas and call arity behind it are where an agent migration spends its budget.
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The anonymous GLM model more than doubled DeepSeek's usage while researchers, not the maker, worked out who built it. Chinese labs are treating nameless launches as a repeatable tactic.
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A Fortune columnist reads the 2026 AI economy as an unstable system of frontier labs, Chinese open weights and app companies. The checkable part is price, not payoff.
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Equity plans at Chinese chip and AI companies now cover most of the payroll rather than a handful of stars. That changes what a counteroffer costs anyone hiring against them.
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