Researchers link AI agent fleet to Tencent and Amap scraping
AI summary
Researchers at Swarmchasers say a fleet of AI agents, likely using Tencent’s Hunyuan models, spent more than a week querying Alibaba’s Amap mapping service through Tencent Cloud-linked infrastructure. The preliminary report describes attempts to bypass anti-bot protections and says 211 scans were labeled “claude,” although the researchers’ tests found the behavior more consistent with Tencent models than Anthropic’s Claude.
In-depth insight
The incident highlights how autonomous agents may be used at scale to access rival services and evade anti-bot controls.