News Summary

• A team of international researchers last week published findings on a ‘fleet’ of Chinese AI agents running on a cloud platform operated by Tencent.
• The agents were apparently trying to answer a simple question: ‘Which entrance to Chengdu Zoo do most people use?’ They attempted to get around anti-bot protections on Amap, Alibaba’s equivalent of Google Maps.
• The researchers found no evidence that the agents accessed private systems or coordinated with each other in real time.