# Anthropic commits to spending $11.6B over seven years on Akamai cloud services and secures an option to take a stake of up to 5%; AKAM jumps 17%+ after hours (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters) — retained record

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[Anthropic PBC](https://highsignal.app/entities/ANTHROPIC)[original source ↗](https://www.reuters.com/technology/akamai-anthropic-sign-116-billion-cloud-services-deal-2026-09-24/)

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<a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/akamai-anthropic-sign-116-billion-cloud-services-deal-2026-09-24/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260924/i48.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260924/p48#a260924p48" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Harshita Mary Varghese / <a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/akamai-anthropic-sign-116-billion-cloud-services-deal-2026-09-24/">Anthropic commits to spending $11.6B over seven years on Akamai cloud services and secures an option to take a stake of up to 5%; AKAM jumps 17%+ after hours</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Anthropic has signed an $11.6 billion cloud services agreement with Akamai Technologies (AKAM.O), as the AI lab seeks additional computing capacity &hellip; </p>
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