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Akamai announced an $11.6B seven-year cloud contract with Anthropic, underscoring the explosive growth in AI infrastructure demand and benefiting cloud providers. In contrast, OpenAI faces a class-action lawsuit alleging human review of user chats, highlighting increasing regulatory and privacy risks for model developers. Microsoft's $10B Middle East investment further cements the region's role as a key growth market for US tech giants.
AI Infrastructure and Regulation
Akamai announced an $11.6B seven-year cloud contract with Anthropic, underscoring the explosive growth in AI infrastructure demand and benefiting cloud providers. In contrast, OpenAI faces a class-action lawsuit alleging human review of user chats, highlighting increasing regulatory and privacy risks for model developers. Microsoft's $10B Middle East investment further cements the region's role as a key growth market for US tech giants.