Topic
Tencent
4 episodes
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We found a Chinese agent fleet
A research group has uncovered a likely Tencent-linked agent fleet scraping Chinese map data using urlquery.net, with the bots cloaked behind proxies and labeled as 'Claude' despite being Tencent/GLM code. The report's analysis points to coordinated but not communicative parallel activity, clever evasion of rate limits and protections, and operational adjustments after public exposure. The technical takeaway: this is distributed agent scraping at scale with just-barely-enough stealth—raising the bar for platform security and visibility into automated data collection.
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Model Behavior: Week of July 13, 2026
We read this week as the moment the race got less obsessed with tallest-model bragging and more obsessed with who gives builders the best menu. The funny part is that the open-weight crowd is making the incumbents act practical faster than they probably wanted.
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tencent/Hy3 · Hugging Face
Tencent releases Hy3, a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 21B active parameters, open-sourced under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face.
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Tencent's Hy3 beats GLM 5.2 at half the size | VentureBeat
Tencent’s new Hy3 MoE model (295B total, 21B active) under Apache 2.0 is a production-first release with strong agent/search metrics and dramatically lower serving cost than GLM-5.2, but still trails Zhipu’s coding leader on recent benchmarks. Laura’s excited about the enterprise upside; Harper wants to see independent validation before betting the stack.