Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims

Fri, 08 May 2026 23:17:31 +0000

Originally published by The Register

Good times, bad times

This week was the best of times for Akamai and the worst of times for Cloudflare.

On the same evening, content delivery network mainstay Cloudflare announced it wascutting about a fifth of its staffin a realignment around AI, its competitor Akamai announced a seven-year, $1.8 billion deal with a leading LLM provider thatBloombergidentified as Anthropic.

Akamai CEO Tom Leighton said this was the largest deal in the company’s history and that it came after another large, unidentified frontier-model developer signed a $200 million deal last quarter.

Ticker: Fox News Debuts New Promo Campaign Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday

Fri, 08 May 2026 16:40:01 +0000

Originally published by Adweek

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