Anthropic commits $11.6 billion to Akamai for CPU capacity, not GPUs

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Anthropic has committed to pay Akamai approximately $11.6 billion over seven years, and what Akamai says the money buys is CPU capacity rather than GPUs. Akamai's press release of September 24 says the commitment "will support Anthropic's accelerating CPU workload demands by leveraging Akamai…