Daily A.I. Brief · September 25th

Storyflo Tech — The Daily Tech Brief · Sep 25, 2026 · 8m

From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief. Hey, it's Theo. September 25th. Here are five stories I'd flag if you missed yesterday's end-of-day. Let's get into it. First, from The Decoder. Anthropic signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai, pushing its compute spending past $500 billion in under a year. Anthropic has just inked a significant seven-year cloud agreement with Akamai, valued at $11.6 billion. Along with this deal, they’re also set to receive a warrant for up to 5 percent of Akamai's shares, which is an interesting move for them. This brings Anthropic’s total compute spending…