Akamai Announces $11.6 Billion Multi-year Agreement with Anthropic to Support Growing Demand

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    "excerpt": "CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), today announced a significantly expanded relationship with Anthropic for $11.6 billion of contractual commitment over seven years. The multi-year commitment will support Anthropic's accelerating CPU workload demands by leveraging Akamai Cloud's distributed AI infrastructure and software. The deal adds to the more than $2.8 billion in multi-year Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS) commitments across Akamai’s customer base previously announced this year. These agreements underscore a growing demand for Akamai to enable customers to build, deploy and operate AI workloads at scale. As part of the increased strategic alignment between Akamai and Anthropic, Akamai has issued a warrant to Anthropic for the purchase of non-voting convertible Series B Preferred Stock representing 7.7 million shares of Akamai’s common stock on an as-converted basis, or up to approximately 5% of Akamai’s common stock outstanding, at an exercise price of $111.33 per share of common stock. A portion of the warrant representing approximately 2% of Akamai’s common stock outstanding is expected to vest in connection with today’s announced $11.6 billion commitment. The remaining approximately 3% would vest throughout the successful expansion of the commitment up to an additional $9 billion within the seven-year term...",
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