Akamai stock surges over 25% to its highest level since 2000 after Anthropic is confirmed as the customer behind a massive seven-year, $1.8 billion cloud deal, as the AI company aggressively expands its compute infrastructure through multiple partnerships to combat usage limits and rival OpenAI.
Apple and Intel strike a preliminary chip-making deal brokered with U.S. government involvement, sending Intel shares surging 13% and reuniting the two tech giants after Apple previously ditched Intel processors in favor of its own silicon.
Anthropic signs a massive $1.8 billion, seven-year cloud computing deal with Akamai Technologies as the AI company races to meet surging demand for its artificial intelligence software.
Alphabet is pursuing mass AI licensing deals with private equity giants Blackstone, KKR, and EQT, betting enterprise AI adoption is a platform problem, while rivals OpenAI and Anthropic launch hands-on service ventures embedding engineers directly inside client organizations.
Anthropic secures a massive deal with SpaceX for 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of compute power, lifts usage caps for paid subscribers, and explores building orbital AI data centers in space as AI demand continues to surge.
PwC and OpenAI are partnering to build the first AI-native enterprise finance function, deploying agentic AI across planning, forecasting, reporting, and accounting — with human oversight — starting inside OpenAI's own finance organization before scaling to enterprise clients worldwide.
Microsoft is considering abandoning its 2030 clean energy goal of matching 100% of its electricity use with renewable energy, as rapidly expanding AI data centers create power demands that make the ambitious target increasingly difficult to meet.
In a bombshell moment from the Musk v. Altman trial, former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati testifies under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about AI safety protocols, claiming the legal department cleared a new model from safety board review — a claim directly contradicted by OpenAI's own general …
Anthropic commits $200 billion to Google Cloud over five years, representing over 40% of Alphabet's entire backlog, sending Alphabet shares soaring in postmarket trading as surging demand for Claude Code drives a massive infrastructure expansion push.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy defends a massive $200 billion AI investment, citing AWS revenue surging past a $15 billion run rate — growing 260 times faster than AWS did in its early years — as Amazon stock hits record highs amid booming investor confidence in AI's transformative potential.