Anthropic's $11.6B Akamai Deal Comes With a Stake
Akamai Technologies said Thursday it signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion agreement to supply Anthropic with cloud computing capacity, with an option to expand the deal by another $9 billion.
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Akamai Technologies said Thursday it signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion agreement to supply Anthropic with cloud computing capacity, with an option to expand the deal by another $9 billion.
Chinese officials and engineers see an attempt to preserve the U.S. lead; “Why do you always get to define the game — and change the rules?”
When the presidents of the United States and China meet in Washington, the world will be watching to see whether their two countries can make good on their agreement to work towards “constructive strategic stability”.
Amazon announced new AI tools for its independent sellers, led by a plugin that lets them run their Amazon businesses from Anthropic's Claude or Amazon's own Quick assistant. Read More
Claude is now helping Anthropic build the next generation of AI. 🤯 Anthropic says that as of August 2026, Claude “leads” around 26% of the company’s AI R&D work — up from under 1% in February 2026. But what does “leads” actually mean? In this video, I explain it with a simple real-world example.
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Claude Opus 5.5 is now live in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI. It is the new #1 on FrontierCode 1.1, edging out Fable 5 and GPT-6 Astra at less than a tenth of the cost of Fable 5.
Yesterday was Grok 4.7 (pelicans) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro (more pelicans). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. It's going to take a while to get a good read on all of these new models, but here are my impressions so far.
Release: llm-anthropic 0.29 Adds support for Claude Opus 5.5: llm -m claude-opus-5.5 "prompt goes here" Tags: llm, anthropic
AI firms keep talking about Singapore. Their hiring data reveals who’s truly expanding in the region.
Maybe you heard about the AI-controlled vending machine that stocked underwear and live fish. Or the AI manager of a San Francisco store that fired a human employee.
A researcher who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic just resigned — and his reason is raising serious questions about where AI is heading. Jacob Coxon says both labs are moving rapidly toward self-improving AI without having a clear enough plan to control it.
OpenAI and Anthropic are hiring leaders from Meta, Google, Microsoft, and other U.S. tech giants to win new markets across India and Southeast Asia.
On 11 August, Anthropic announced that all future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark that identifies its results as AI generated. The company is not alone. Google has its own text watermark (which Anthropic’s is based on) that it uses on the output of its Gemini models.
Introducing Fable 5.1 in Devin. Fable-level intelligence is now 54% cheaper – making it even cheaper than Opus – due to a change in caching. Devin’s Fusion harness is now even smarter and cheaper than before, matching Fable 5.1 on FrontierCode at 47% lower cost.
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Anthropic confirmed on August 11 that it is embedding invisible watermarks into everything Claude writes, and it isn't limiting the change to European users.
Three papers landed this week that, read together, sketch out what happens once you stop treating an AI agent as a single system and start treating it as a node in a network.
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