[10/12 12:00 UTC] Anthropic lands two deals on Monday: a reported multiyear AI cloud contract…

AI News Flash for October 12, 2026 at 12:00 UTC. Topics: 1. Anthropic lands two deals on Monday: a reported multiyear AI cloud contract with IREN (The Information) and a Global Premier Partnership with India's HCLTech https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/iren-shares-rise-5-premarket-110403878.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hcltech-and-anthropic-sign-global-premier-partnership-to-scale-governed-agentic-ai-across-global-enterprises-302905626.html 2. UK unveils measures against growing AI risks; frontier AI pilots found and fixed over a thousand vulnerabilities in government systems, and loss of control risk to be examined in cyber legislation (GOV.UK) https://www.gov.uk/government/news/britain-steps-up-national-defences-against-growing-ai-risks 3. Under US curbs on foreign-made robots, Samsung-backed Rainbow Robotics files the first Korean exemption request (Seoul Economic Daily) https://en.sedaily.com/technology/2026/10/12/us-robot-curbs-prompt-first-korean-exemption-bid-by-rainbow 4. Hitachi launches an AI service that advises executives by analyzing rivals' business plans; NEC runs an unmanned department staffed only by 39 AI agents (NHK) https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/news/20261012de58251/ 5. Linus Torvalds uses Claude Code on a Linux kernel improvement and LLM tools uncover three bugs dating back to 2013 (Phoronix) https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Assoc-Array