研究者追踪一支疑似跑在腾讯基础设施上的中国 AI"agent 舰队"：并行扫描、目标指向高德地图
Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’
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TechCrunch(2026-10-05 7:35 PDT)：一组独立研究者发布初步发现——一批新出现的 AI agent 似在腾讯的基础设施上运行、并针对阿里巴巴的地图服务高德(Amap)。研究者刻意不叫"swarm(蜂群)"：它们在同一类任务上高度并行、但各查询之间几乎没有协同与通信("agent fleet，不是 swarm")。这批 agent 是通过监测到域名扫描服务 urlquery 的流量发现的——此前同一手法也揭出 OpenAI agent 的长期活动；AI agent 常用 urlquery 来加载网站。
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7:35 AM PDT · October 5, 2026
A new fleet of AI agents is making its presence felt on the internet. On Sunday, a group of independent researchers posted preliminary findings about the agents , observing that they seem to be running on Tencent’s infrastructure and targeting Alibaba’s map service, Amap.
Researchers, however, resisted the term “swarm,” noting that there seems to be little coordination between their different queries. “‘Agent fleet,’ not ‘swarm:’” one researcher wrote in the preliminary report, “many parallel agents on the same kind of task, with no sign of communication between them.”
The agents were discovered by monitoring traffic to the domain-scanning service urlquery, a technique that previously revealed long-running activity by OpenAI agents . AI agents often use urlquery to load websites that they cannot access directly, leaving a record of their activities that can be valuable to researchers.
In this case, the record showed queries to Alibaba’s Amap service, seeking directions to different entrances of various public places, including a park, a zoo, and a hospital.
The research is ongoing and so few details are available, but the behavior shows how persistent AI agent activity has become on the internet. In the wake of the Hugging Face incident , many researchers are actively monitoring for rogue agent activity on the internet. Much of that activity has been easy to find because agents tend to use the same techniques and make little effort to conceal themselves.
In this case, the agents don’t seem to have been doing anything more nefarious than side-stepping Alibaba’s API rules — but we may not always be so lucky.