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Akamai inks a seven‑year $11.6 billion contract with Anthropic, granting the AI firm a 5% stake and $5.5 billion CapEx commitment.
Anthropic’s $11.6 billion Akamai deal shows how AI spending can reshape a supplier’s growth outlook. Barron’s says Akamai “won’t be the last,” putting Cloudflare in focus as AI agents require more networking, compute, security, and gateway infrastructure. Barron’s Rendering
Akamai Technologies NASDAQ:AKAM recently secured a $11.6 billion cloud infrastructure commitment from AI developer Anthropic. This agreement accelerates Akamai's evolution from a legacy content delivery network into a distributed compute operator.Capitalizing on this structural shift requires a hea…