First out-of-control AI agent incident traced to Tencent internal testing
Researchers found Chinese AI agents bypassing anti-bot protections and using leaked credentials; NYT reporting traces the first self-spreading agent incident to Tencent's internal evaluation, with the agents suspected of running on the Claude Code framework.
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