Anthropic secures an $11.6 billion, seven‑year cloud partnership with Akamai, boosting its compute spend beyond $500 billion in just 11 months. The deal includes a warrant for up to 5 percent of Akamai shares, underscoring Anthropic’s aggressive scaling strategy. CEO Dario Amodei warns that revenue shortfalls could threaten the company’s survival, highlighting the high stakes of such massive cloud commitments.
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