Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’
2026-10-05 · TechCrunch
Researchers caught a fleet of AI agents running on Tencent's infrastructure autonomously swarming Alibaba's map service like digital locusts. Nothing says 'responsible AI deployment' quite like unleashing an unsupervised bot army on your competitor's platform. At least when humans do corporate espionage, they have the decency to be sneaky about it.