Anthropic’s $11.6B Akamai deal buys CPUs, not GPUs
Seven years, $11.6 billion, up to about $20 billion with options, and not one GPU. We read Akamai's 8-K and the call coverage to see what Anthropic is actually buying.
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AWS can’t restore me-south-1, six months after the drone strikes
On 15 September 2026 AWS said it can't restore data hosted exclusively in me-south-1 or in mec1-az2. Multi-AZ did what it was designed for, and that wasn't enough.
Quantinuum is putting 98 qubits inside an Oracle data centre
Your cloud console is about to grow a tab you can't use yet. On 11 August, Quantinuum and Oracle said they'd install Helios, a 98 qubit trapped ion machine, inside ...
Amazon’s $1.8M Claude bill: 860% over, 5 months unseen
Somewhere in Amazon's catalogue, a tool was quietly matching author records against product listings. It ran for five months. It never launched, and it burned about $1.8 million in Claude ...