China's new open-source model accelerates AI hacking threat

GLM-5.2 — the latest Chinese open-source model capturing Silicon Valley's attention — is raising fresh concerns among security researchers that advanced AI hacking capabilities are becoming dramatically cheaper and more accessible.Why it matters: The barrier to entry for malicious hackers eager to automate and personalize their attacks is getting lower and lower. Driving the news: Z.ai's GLM-5.2, which was released last week, has agentic capabilities that rival those of Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenA