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TechCrunch AI September 25, 2026 By Aditya Mehta neutral

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

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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 grows as Anthropic spends more.
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