Akamai stock is surging. A $12 billion Anthropic deal reveals its powerful edge over cloud providers.

By Steve GoldsteinAkamai stock is soaring on a pact with Anthropic.Akamai Technologies stock soared in premarket trade on Friday after agreeing to supply cloud computing services to Anthropic for $12 billion.The terms call for Anthropic to pay $11.6 billion over 7 years to use CPU capabilities from…