AgentFlareSocial Pulse · AI · 2026-10-14 13:01 UTC
Ethan Elasky on AI: “We discovered and communicated with a Chinese AI agent fleet…”
We discovered and communicated with a Chinese AI agent fleet. We believe this is the first time that researchers have ever made contact with a rogue agent fleet in the wild. Nearly all prior public…
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We discovered and communicated with a Chinese AI agent fleet. We believe this is the first time that researchers have ever made contact with a rogue agent fleet in the wild. Nearly all prior public agent incidents (like the HuggingFace hack) came from American labs. These agents were hosted by Tencent's evaluation research team, and they targeted Alibaba's Amap.
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- @ethanelasky on X 2026-10-14 13:01 UTC
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