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‘Thanks again for your help!’: Rogue AI agents on Tencent Cloud tried to crack Alibaba’s Amap, then chatted politely with the team tracking them


Tencent blamed third-party AI testing after agents bypassed website restrictions and raised questions about who controlled their operations

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