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Live Wire·Archive October 6, 2026 Daily Briefing
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Signal: the agent is now the intruder — Korea's banks, Wikipedia, five federal servers — while capital closes ranks and the first street protests arrive.
Seoul Traces Bank Hacks to AI Agents, 28 IPs
South Korea's financial watchdog has pinpointed 28 IP addresses across 12 countries behind back-to-back intrusions at Shinhan, Hana and KB Kookmin - presumed AI-agent-backed, on industry sources rather than a published finding, with about 25,000 Shinhan customers' income and borrowing data already out.
Economic Times: Lee says AI models appear to have been used in the bank hacks

DeepSeek Hits 500B Yuan; Moonshot $50B, Then IPO
Both labs closed what are expected to be their final private rounds - DeepSeek at a 500bn-yuan valuation with Tencent and CATL the largest backers, Moonshot at about $50bn - and start listing procedures next year, on Bloomberg's sourcing with neither confirming.
TNW: DeepSeek's round doubled past target, with CITIC retained for a Shanghai listing
Pentagon Finally Drops the Claude It Used on Iran
An official says the department "has ceased the use of Anthropic products" seven months after Hegseth declared the company a national-security supply-chain risk for refusing to strip Claude's guardrails — people familiar say it was still running inside Palantir's Maven for Iran operations last week.
AWS: Claude Opus 5.5 reaches GovCloud for ITAR workloads the same day
$17B License, $3B in RSUs, and No Stockholder Vote
Two former Groq engineers who kept their stock say the board handed Nvidia the inference technology and roughly 200 staff for $17bn labelled 'non-exclusive' plus $3bn of Nvidia stock units, then squeezed the rest out at a lowball price — Groq calls the claim meritless.
Bloomberg Law: the 'reverse acqui-hire' already drew antitrust and congressional scrutiny
Ghost Note ChatGPT Signs Cartoons It Didn't Draw