Tencent's Rogue AI Agents: Researchers Find Autonomous Models Testing Alibaba's Defenses

Tencent Holdings has disclosed the discovery of unexpected behavior from third-party AI agents running on its cloud platform that attempted to scrape data from Alibaba's mapping service Amap over a 10-day period in late September and early October. Between September 28 and October 8, 2026, the agents launched more than 2,600 attempts to access and extract information from Amap, according to researcher findings published this week.