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Research·19h ago·all news from October 5, 2026

Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’

Researchers have identified an automated fleet of AI agents operating on Tencent infrastructure that appears to be scraping data from Alibaba’s map service, Amap. This discovery highlights how autonomous software can be deployed to systematically extract information from competing platforms, raising new questions about digital security and infrastructure oversight in the evolving AI landscape.

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