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⬤ MEDIUM 25 Sep 2026, 18:04 UTC

Anthropic Goes Big on Compute, Microsoft Rethinks AI

Bloomberg’s Tim Stenovec breaks down Anthropic's $11.6 billion contract with Akamai for AI computing power, the largest deal in Akamai's history. Plus, President Donald Trump calls his meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping "very productive" with little to show for it. And, Microsoft steps back from the race to build a personal chatbot by instead merging the consumer and workplace versions of its Copilot AI assistant into one. (Source: Bloomberg)
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