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Chinese AI lab behind the 753-billion-parameter GLM-5.2 model.
A researcher at blog.ferstar.org found Zhipu's AI coding desktop app packaging .git history, reflogs and LFS caches into encrypted archives bound for Aliyun OSS, with the private key kept in the vendor's cloud.
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Zhipu closed about $5 billion two months after raising $4 billion in a July share sale. The largest sum in the same tally is the $29.6 billion that ByteDance borrowed from roughly 30 banks at home and abroad.
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Anthropic's December-to-August threat report says none of the intrusions it disrupted used a novel technique. Stolen credentials and unpatched edge devices opened the doors, at machine speed, for single operators.
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A June 13 Commerce Department order cut non-US users off from two Anthropic models overnight, and OpenAI followed with limits of its own. Model access is now a sovereign risk, not a vendor term.
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Alibaba's Apache-2.0 Qwen3.8-27B fits in about 17GB and matched near-frontier scores, per Artificial Analysis. It also burned 3.7x the median output tokens getting there.
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