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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.
Egypt’s Ministry of Communications announced that it is preparing a national strategy for data centers, with the aim of launching it by the end of 2026, as part of an effort to turn data traffic through the country into economic and investment value. The move comes alongside plans to expand digital government services and implement the second phase of the national artificial intelligence strategy.