Akamai Technologies experienced strong upward momentum following the announcement of a landmark multi-year agreement with artificial intelligence enterprise Anthropic. Under the strategic contract, Anthropic will leverage Akamai Cloud’s distributed infrastructure and software to handle rapidly expanding compute and workload demands, with options built into the agreement to significantly expand total long-term contract value. To reinforce strategic alignment, Akamai issued Anthropic equity warrants tied to milestone deployments. To support the massive infrastructure scale-up, Akamai also formalized hardware supply and procurement agreements with key manufacturing partners including Lenovo and Jabil to pre-purchase essential memory and…