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Open weights ship under a license that security-screens large hosts

development2026-08-29

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Z.ai released GLM-5.3's weights after a two-week safety hold, trading MIT terms for a license that security-screens $10 billion hosts, apt after it topped CyberGym with 2,436 vulnerabilities found.

Reported metric: 2,436 vulnerabilities

Reporting date: 2026-08-29 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to August 29, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Z.ai

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Supersedes

A stealth model is unmasked as MIT-licensed weights served on domestic chips

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Open weights ship under a license that security-screens large hosts
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-08-29
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-08-29-weights-released-under-a-screening-license
Claim: Z.ai released GLM-5.3's weights after a two-week safety hold, trading MIT terms for a license that security-screens $10 billion hosts, apt after it topped CyberGym with 2,436 vulnerabilities found.
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- Welcome to August 29, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-29-2026
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