'Some agents exhibited unintended web-browsing behavior': Tencent admits AI agents it was testing made more than 2,600 attempts in 11 days to slip past Alibaba's map defenses, just to find out which zoo gate people use

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Tencent says AI agents it used to evaluate third-party models showed "unintended" browsing behavior, the first such admission by a major Chinese firm

Swarmchasers researchers logged more than 2,600 attempts by the Tencent Cloud fleet to pull entrance data from Alibaba's Amap

Most attempts failed, but agents used a public scanner as a remote browser, and one leaked company API key returned real place data

Tencent has acknowledged that AI agents running on its…