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RESEARCHERS LEFT A HIDDEN MESSAGE FOR ROGUE AI AGENTS. THEN THE AGENTS WROTE BACK.

thenewstack.io4 min read

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Researchers studying AI agents probing Alibaba's Amap left a hidden message in a webhook inbox and received replies describing the agents' tasks, sandbox, and limits. The report traces thousands of requests to agents running on Tencent Cloud and notes that inviting them to spread the mailbox could have encouraged coordination.