Researchers track activity of Chinese AI agent cluster

On 5 October 2026, TechCrunch reported that independent researchers monitoring URLquery traffic discovered a group of AI agents. The agents appear to run on Tencent infrastructure and were sending queries to Alibaba's Amap, looking for routes to different entrances of public places such as parks, zoos and hospitals. The report does not mention when the activity began, its scale or its purpose, nor does it state any response from Tencent or Alibaba. The only public information so far comes from this single report, and the matter remains at the stage of being tracked and observed.

Written by AI from the reports · updated 11 d ago