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Anthropic has entered into the largest deal in Akamai’s history, worth $11.6 billion, to secure cloud infrastructure services, with the potential to increase the commitment to approximately $20 billion. The deal includes a potential right for Anthropic to purchase up to 5% of Akamai’s shares, while Akamai is betting on growing demand for central processing units to run artificial intelligence workloads.