Minor TechnologyINT TechCrunch

Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal

Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that…

Read the full story at TechCrunch ↗

ImpactMinor 15/100
Why it mattersRule-based estimate: event keywords (+6), soft/evergreen signals; trust 7/10.
RegionsGlobal
Published4 h ago (Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:13:38 GMT)
RetrievedFri, 25 Sep 2026 21:00:24 GMT via api
ClassifiedFri, 25 Sep 2026 21:03:08 GMT by heuristic
AuthorAditya Mehta