Researchers track a Chinese AI 'agent fleet' running on Tencent infrastructure and accessing Alibaba's Amap
Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’
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Independent researchers found a Chinese AI 'agent fleet' apparently running on Tencent infrastructure and targeting Amap, Alibaba's map service. They avoided calling it a 'swarm', saying the parallel agents performed similar tasks but showed no signs of communicating with one another. The discovery came from monitoring traffic to the URLquery domain-scanning service. Records show agents querying routes to different entrances at public places such as parks, zoos, and hospitals; the investigation is ongoing.
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