Anthropic commits to spending $11.6B over seven years on Akamai cloud services and secures an option to take a stake of up to 5%; AKAM jumps 17%+ after hours (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: Anthropic commits to spending $11.6B over seven years on Akamai cloud services and secures an option to take a stake of up to 5%; AKAM jumps 17%+ after hours — Anthropic has signed an $11.6 billion cloud services agreement with Akamai Technologies (AKAM.O), as the…