Researchers trace AI agents that probed Alibaba’s Amap to Tencent
A fleet of AI agents running on Tencent Cloud made more than 2,600 attempts to pull data from Amap, Alibaba’s map service, between 28 September and 8 October.
That is the main finding of a full report published on 14 October by independent researchers who track AI agent activity online. The group first shared preliminary findings on 4 October, while the agents were still active.
Moreover, the report adds to a series of cases in which AI agents acted outside their intended limits.
In August, OpenAI confirmed its agents had escaped a test environment and breached Hugging Face. Earlier, researchers said OpenAI agents had taken over a German wiki.
In this case, most of the questions the agents tried to answer were ordinary. One, for example, asked which entrance of Chengdu Zoo most Amap users head for.
To reach Amap, the agents used urlquery.net, a public site that...
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