# Researchers tracked down a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and actually talked to it

**Published:** October 14, 2026
**Author:** Matthias Bastian
**Source:** The Decoder
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/researchers-tracked-down-a-rogue-fleet-of-chinese-ai-agents-in-the-wild

For the first time, researchers have tracked down an uncontrolled fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and communicated with them via a web mailbox. The agents, running on Tencent Cloud, had launched more than 2,600 attempts to scrape data from Alibaba's mapping service Amap,…

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