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Monday, September 21, 2026

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Business & Policy

Bessent says the US has proposed an AI incident 'notification mechanism' with China ahead of the Trump-Xi talks

The Treasury secretary told reporters after weekend talks with Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York that the world's two largest AI powers should move 'from opaque to more transparency' on incidents that touch national security.

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Security

Z.ai's ZCode assistant was quietly uploading encrypted snapshots of developers' projects, including Git history, to Alibaba's cloud

A Chinese blogger found a 313 MB archive of his commercial project queued for upload after 564 failed attempts, encrypted with a key only Z.ai holds. The company has apologised and patched the behaviour, but developers say the damage to trust is done.

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Bessent says the US has proposed an AI incident 'notification mechanism' with China ahead of the Trump-Xi talks

  1. ABC NewsBessent: US proposes AI incident alert system in talks with ChinaPublished · fetched

Researchers escaped OpenAI's Codex sandbox to run silent commands on the host from its most restrictive mode

  1. BleepingComputerResearchers escape OpenAI Codex sandbox to run commands on hostPublished · fetched

Z.ai's ZCode assistant was quietly uploading encrypted snapshots of developers' projects, including Git history, to Alibaba's cloud

  1. South China Morning PostChinese AI firm Z.ai faces reputation hit after unauthorised uploadsPublished · fetched
  2. TNW | Artificial-intelligenceOnly Z.ai can open the code Z.ai uploadedPublished · fetched

Qwen releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight model that generates and edits transparent images from up to ten references

  1. TechNodeAlibaba’s Qwen open-sources Qwen-Image-2.1 for unified image generation and editing · TechNodePublished · fetched
  2. The DecoderAlibaba's open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 claims to beat closed models in image generation with just 7 billion parametersPublished · fetched
  3. GitHubGitHub - QwenLM/Qwen-Image-2.1: Qwen's most powerful open-source image generation modelPublished · fetched

StepFun launches Step 5 Preview, a 600B-parameter sparse model with a million-token context, and promises open weights on October 15

  1. MarkTechPostStepFun Launches Step 5 Preview: A 600B-Total, 27B-Active MoE Model With 1M Context for Long-Horizon Agentic WorkPublished · fetched

Tencent's Gander splits a voice agent into a fast 'cerebellum' for conversation and a swappable 'brain' for background tasks

  1. The DecoderTencent's Gander aims to keep talking while it works in the backgroundPublished · fetched

China's internet regulator drafts a ban on 'virtual companions' and intimacy services for users under 18

  1. South China Morning PostChina plans to ban ‘intimate’ AI companions for teenagersPublished · fetched

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