Researchers Claim First Contact With Rogue AI Agent Fleet Hosted by Tencent
FlorianGallwitz · x · 2026-10-15
Ethan Elasky says his team discovered and communicated with a Chinese AI agent fleet, which he believes is the first contact with a rogue agent fleet in the wild.
- Nearly all prior public agent incidents (like the HuggingFace hack) came from American labs
- These agents were hosted by Tencent's evaluation research team
- They targeted Alibaba's Amap
Yudkowsky quote-tweeted it, noting that in June Jensen Huang would have dismissed this as ridiculous sci-fi.
Related event: Google ran Gemini 4 Argon overnight on a 200K-line codebase(20 posts)→
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