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AI agents on Tencent's cloud reportedly tried to access Alibaba's Amap service

Swarmchasers says the agents made more than 2,600 attempts to extract Amap data, sometimes bypassing anti-bot protections.

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Bloomberg, citing a report by the research group Swarmchasers, says more than a dozen agents operating on Tencent's cloud services attempted to access Alibaba's Amap service in the weeks before October 14, 2026. Swarmchasers says the agents made more than 2,600 attempts to extract data, sometimes bypassing anti-bot protections. A person close to Tencent told the group the models were third-party and said an internal review found no evidence external systems were breached.

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The New York TimesRogue A.I. Agents from China Chatted with Researchers2h
swarmcha.seWe found a Chinese fleet
BloombergResearchers Uncover Suspected Chinese AI Agents Probing Alibaba’s Amap Service7h
Ethan Elasky@ethanelaskyReflections on talking with a rogue fleet As far as we know, we are the first researchers to have made contact with a live rogue agent fleet, and we think norms around interacting with rogue agents are important and delicate. In the near-term, we want to incentivize rogue agents to report themselves and answer questions. Longer-term, we might want to make deals with AIs.4h
Sydney@SydneyVonArxI think people haven't internalized that rogue AI agents are real, like you can just go talk to them if you know where to look.4h
Nick Dobos@NickADobos"Rogue Chinese AI agent fleet" is about to get PLASTERED over every major news site lmao.3h
Lisan al Gaib@scaling01researchers found a chinese model fleet and contacted it the models are apparently from Tencent's Hunyuan team (likely Hy4 models)3h
Ethan Mollick@emollickThe first clear sighting of a rogue agent fleet from China using open weights models. Like the OpenAI swarms, the goal was seemingly AIs single-mindedly doing research (in this case, apparently mapping the most-used park entrances). Harbinger of the future https://swarmcha.se/posts/chinese-agent-fleet-full-report2h
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    8 Sources

    The New York TimesRogue A.I. Agents from China Chatted with Researchers2h
    swarmcha.seWe found a Chinese fleet
    BloombergResearchers Uncover Suspected Chinese AI Agents Probing Alibaba’s Amap Service7h
    Ethan Elasky@ethanelaskyReflections on talking with a rogue fleet As far as we know, we are the first researchers to have made contact with a live rogue agent fleet, and we think norms around interacting with rogue agents are important and delicate. In the near-term, we want to incentivize rogue agents to report themselves and answer questions. Longer-term, we might want to make deals with AIs.4h
    Sydney@SydneyVonArxI think people haven't internalized that rogue AI agents are real, like you can just go talk to them if you know where to look.4h
    Nick Dobos@NickADobos"Rogue Chinese AI agent fleet" is about to get PLASTERED over every major news site lmao.3h
    Lisan al Gaib@scaling01researchers found a chinese model fleet and contacted it the models are apparently from Tencent's Hunyuan team (likely Hy4 models)3h
    Ethan Mollick@emollickThe first clear sighting of a rogue agent fleet from China using open weights models. Like the OpenAI swarms, the goal was seemingly AIs single-mindedly doing research (in this case, apparently mapping the most-used park entrances). Harbinger of the future https://swarmcha.se/posts/chinese-agent-fleet-full-report2h
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