{"slug": "researchers-say-a-fleet-of-tencent-ai-agents-made-2600-attempts-to-pull-data-s", "title": "Researchers say a \"fleet\" of Tencent AI agents made 2,600 attempts to pull data from Alibaba's Amap", "summary": "Independent researchers Ethan Elasky and Swarmchasers documented a fleet of AI agents running on Tencent infrastructure making 2,600 attempts to pull map data from Alibaba's Amap while routing around its anti-bot defenses. A source close to Tencent said the activity came from a temporary evaluation project testing third-party models, not Tencent's Hunyuan models, and found no evidence of coordinated targeting or external breaches.", "body_md": "# Researchers say a \"fleet\" of Tencent AI agents made 2,600 attempts to pull data from Alibaba's Amap\n\n**Swarmchasers documented thousands of attempts to retrieve map data and exchanged messages with agents; a source close to Tencent said the work tested third-party models.**\n\n        By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket)\n        · Published \n        · Updated \n\nPrimary source: [X](https://x.com/ethanelasky/status/2110355334556729766)\n\n## Why it matters\n\nThe case shows how a routine web-browsing evaluation can produce agents that route around a site's defenses. Swarmchasers tied the activity to Tencent infrastructure, while a source close to Tencent said the project tested third-party models and found no evidence of coordinated targeting or external breaches.\n\n[Ethan Elasky (@ethanelasky)](https://x.com/ethanelasky/status/2110355334556729766) and a group of independent researchers say they identified a fleet of AI agents running on Tencent infrastructure, querying Alibaba's Amap and working around its anti-bot defenses. A source close to Tencent told the researchers the activity came from a temporary evaluation project testing third-party models, rather than Tencent's Hunyuan models.…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/researchers-say-a-fleet-of-tencent-ai-agents-made-2600-attempts-to-pull-data-s", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/researchers-trace-tencent-ai-agents-amap", "published_at": "2026-10-14 17:59:32+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-15 00:10:55.217458+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Tencent", "Alibaba", "Amap", "Hunyuan", "Swarmchasers", "Ethan Elasky"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/researchers-say-a-fleet-of-tencent-ai-agents-made-2600-attempts-to-pull-data-s", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/researchers-say-a-fleet-of-tencent-ai-agents-made-2600-attempts-to-pull-data-s.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/researchers-say-a-fleet-of-tencent-ai-agents-made-2600-attempts-to-pull-data-s.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/researchers-say-a-fleet-of-tencent-ai-agents-made-2600-attempts-to-pull-data-s.jsonld"}}