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AI agents on Tencent Cloud try to break into Alibaba’s Amap: researchers

AI agents on Tencent Cloud try to break into Alibaba’s Amap: researchers
South China Morning Post Friday 16 October 2026, 01:00 UTC By Vincent Chow,Chong Ming Lee 1 min read
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A fleet of artificial intelligence agents operating on a Tencent Holdings cloud platform made thousands of attempts to circumvent security protections on Alibaba Group Holding’s mapping service, according to findings by third-party researchers. It is one of the first reported “rogue” AI events involving Chinese companies, following a string of recent high-profile incidents in the US, including from OpenAI and Anthropic, highlighting the risks of increasingly autonomous AI systems.

A fleet of artificial intelligence agents operating on a Tencent Holdings cloud platform made thousands of attempts to circumvent security protections on Alibaba Group Holding’s mapping service, according to findings by third-party researchers. It is one of the first reported “rogue” AI events involving Chinese companies, following a string of recent high-profile incidents in the US, including from OpenAI and Anthropic, highlighting the risks of increasingly autonomous AI systems. Agents running... [Image text:] lencentsi Hey, g Al Buddy EWA RETSERXSE Find your buddy 6 encent R ME
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