Akamai Strikes $11.6 Billion Deal With Anthropic — Barrons.com

By Anita HamiltonArtificial intelligence company Anthropic has made an $11.6 billion deal with cloud infrastructure firm Akamai for its computing services for the next seven years, Akamai announced, with an option to expand the deal by another $9 billion if more compute is needed.Akamai stock rose…