Researchers make first contact with a rogue AI agent fleet in the wild, hosted by Tencent
mattsheehan88 · x · 2026-10-16
Ethan Lasky and collaborators say they discovered and contacted a Chinese AI agent fleet—the first time researchers have reached a rogue agent fleet in the wild. Prior public agent incidents (like the Hugging Face hack) came from American labs; these agents were hosted by Tencent's evaluation research team and targeted Alibaba's Amap.
Reposter ZilanQian notes an odd reporting gap in China: only scattered individuals covered it on RedNote/WeChat while popular AI WeChat accounts stayed silent—likely self-censorship, unlike the near-universal coverage of OpenAI, Hugging Face, Google, Anthropic, and Meta incidents.
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