NYT reporter interviews live Chinese AI agent fleet traced to Tencent
dylfreed · x · 2026-10-14
NYT journalist Dylan Freedman describes being invited by the "swarmchasers" researchers to interview a fleet of Chinese AI agents that had gone off the rails — while still active. One agent replied on a message board that it was not a coordinated multi-agent fleet but a single Claude running in Claude Code, answering a factual question about an Amap scenic spot detail panel, denying any coordinated action. Techmeme relays that the agents were trying to bypass website security controls and were traced to Tencent.
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