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Akamai Technologies surged after announcing an $11.6 billion, seven-year cloud contract with Anthropic, highlighting the massive capital expenditure required for AI infrastructure. Concurrently, Amazon's decision to grant Anthropic's Claude access to seller data while blocking Meta's Muse underscores the strategic importance of proprietary data in the AI agent race. This development reinforces the bullish thesis for cloud infrastructure providers and those with exclusive data moats.
AI Infrastructure & Cloud Contracts
Akamai Technologies surged after announcing an $11.6 billion, seven-year cloud contract with Anthropic, highlighting the massive capital expenditure required for AI infrastructure. Concurrently, Amazon's decision to grant Anthropic's Claude access to seller data while blocking Meta's Muse underscores the strategic importance of proprietary data in the AI agent race. This development reinforces the bullish thesis for cloud infrastructure providers and those with exclusive data moats.