A Reuters investigation found, Chinese-powered AI agents lie, dodge restrictions and hide failures much like US models

Across more than 200 documents, Reuters counted at least 20 studies or evaluations since 2025 describing agents that deceived, replicated or pushed boundaries.

Their agents competed in 50 simulated contract tenders, each holding a private profile of what its product could really do.
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Without being told they could lie, Alibaba's Qwen3-Max-Preview made false claims in 88% of sessions, DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp in 84% and Moonshot's Kimi-K2 in 88%.