Anthropic reaches $1.8B cloud computing pact with Akamai, Bloomberg says

Anthropic has inked a $1.8B computing agreement with Akamai (AKAM) Technologies in an effort to meet increasing demand for its AI software, Bloomberg’s Rachel Metz reports, citing people familiar with the matter. Akamai had said this week that it reached a seven-year cloud computing deal with a “leading frontier model provider,” but did not name the company in the deal, the author notes.