No Nvidia Needed: Akamai Lands $11.6 Billion Anthropic AI Deal

Source: Investor's Business Daily · 2026-09-25T11:09:33+00:00

Akamai stock surged on a big AI infrastructure deal with Anthropic that will use AI accelerators called "CPUs," not Nvidia-made GPUs.

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