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Anthropic signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai
TechCrunch Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal
Anthropic committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure and received a potential stake of up to 5% in the company.
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Latest brief · Oct 19, 2026