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

AI News October 16, 2026 07:30 AM

Between September 28 and October 8, Tencent agents made more than 2,600 attempts to extract data from Alibaba’s Amap navigation service

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 on Tencent Cloud made more than 2,600 attempts to extract information from Alibaba’s Amap, one of China’s most popular navigation services, between September 28 and October 8, an international group of researchers known as the “swarmchasers” said in a report on Wednesday.

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

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