TechCrunch reports Anthropic will pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years for cloud infrastructure, a CPU-focused bet that could reach $20 billion, with Akamai granting Anthropic a stake of up to 5%.
The deal ties an AI lab's compute spending to an unusual equity arrangement, pointing to how infrastructure contracts are being structured as AI capacity demand grows.
A federal judge dismissed antitrust suits from Chegg and Rolling Stone owner Penske Media that accused Google of starving publishers of traffic with AI Overviews.
Mistral Blog says the company opened a Munich hub for Physics AI and Industrial AI research, partnering with German industry.
In an X post, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is building private processing for its glasses so that for certain AI features, nobody — not even Meta — can access user information.
OpenAI says it is partnering with America's SBDC to expand hands-on AI training and local support for small businesses, alongside a new report on how small teams use AI.
Mark Zuckerberg posted on X that Meta Connect will bring 'lots of announcements,' pointing to a 4pm PT livestream, without naming any product.
AWS's blog details BMW Group's in-house FinOps system CLEA, which forecasts daily cloud spend with Meta's Prophet and emails account owners when costs deviate, running the full 14,000-account job in roughly 20 minutes.
