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Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) regularly issues news as a cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Its announcements highlight developments across security, content delivery, cloud computing, and AI, reflecting the company’s focus on distributed infrastructure and edge-based services.
News items often cover financial results, such as quarterly earnings releases furnished via Form 8-K, where Akamai reports revenue across security, delivery, and cloud computing categories and provides commentary on product momentum. Investors can follow updates on revenue mix, cloud infrastructure services, and the performance of security offerings through these releases and associated investor conference call announcements.
Akamai also publishes product and platform news, including the launch and evolution of Akamai Inference Cloud, a platform designed to extend AI inference from core data centers to the edge of the internet using NVIDIA AI infrastructure. Related stories describe early traction for Inference Cloud and real-world use cases in video, personalization, customer support, and consumer products.
Additional news focuses on cloud and security initiatives, such as Akamai Cloud achieving FedRAMP High Ready status for government-focused cloud services, and on partnerships and ecosystem programs like the ISV Catalyst program for independent software vendors. Strategic collaborations, for example with Visa on Trusted Agent Protocol for agentic commerce or with partners such as Zuplo to support API delivery and monetization, also feature in Akamai’s news flow.
Visitors to this AKAM news page can review these types of updates in one place, including earnings announcements, product launches, security and compliance milestones, partner program developments, and corporate transactions disclosed in press releases and SEC-related communications.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) disclosed technical details on a four-year, $200 million service agreement to host a multi‑thousand NVIDIA Blackwell GPU cluster for a major U.S. AI company. The deployment uses high-density data center power, AI-optimized Ethernet, NVMe-over-Fabric storage, and Akamai's distributed cloud and managed container services.
The contract underscores demand for Akamai's integrated AI development and deployment platform and follows its expansion to 41 datacenters and purchases of thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced on March 3, 2026 the deployment of thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to build a globally distributed AI inference platform.
The platform routes inference workloads to optimized, localized GPU clusters across Akamai's global fabric of over 4,400 locations, targeting lower latency and reduced data egress versus centralized clouds.
According to the company, the stack can reduce latency up to 2.5x and save businesses as much as 86% on AI inference costs versus traditional hyperscaler infrastructure.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) and NVIDIA launched an agentless Zero Trust segmentation solution combining Akamai Guardicore Segmentation with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs to protect OT and ICS, including "un-agentable" industrial equipment. The hardware-isolated approach enforces real-time policies, improves visibility and anomaly detection, and is expected globally in Q2 2026.
This aims to reduce operational disruption, align with stricter regulations, and lower cyber insurance risk while preserving host performance.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) reported Q4 2025 revenue of $1.095B (+7% YoY) and full-year 2025 revenue of $4.208B (+5% YoY). Q4 GAAP EPS was $0.58 (down 36% YoY) and non-GAAP EPS was $1.84 (up 11% YoY).
High-growth segments included Cloud Infrastructure Services (+45% Q4) and Guardicore Segmentation & API Security (+36% Q4; +43% FY). The company recorded a $55M restructuring charge in Q4 and repurchased $800M of stock in 2025 (10.0M shares).
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) was named a Customers’ Choice in the January 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report for Network Security Microsegmentation. Akamai earned a 99% recommendation rate and was one of two vendors to receive that score. Gartner’s distinction reflects end-user ratings across User Interest and Adoption and Overall Experience. The report marks the first Voice of the Customer for network security microsegmentation, indicating broader market maturity. Customer testimonials cited strong implementation support, reliability, and user experience.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced on January 21, 2026 that Deutsche Telekom Security, an Akamai Partner Connect member, is using Akamai’s Security Certified Service Provider program to expand managed cybersecurity offerings across finance, insurance, critical infrastructure, and the public sector.
Deutsche Telekom Security will provide Day-2 operations for full API security lifecycle management, hybrid deployments, quarterly business reviews, API audits and compliance, incident management, and proactive API testing. It will also support Akamai Guardicore Segmentation with segmentation administration and audit services, deployable on sovereign cloud environments. A recent deployment secured a major German state bank.
Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) will hold a conference call on Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 4:30 PM ET to discuss fourth quarter and full-year 2025 financial results and may provide forward-looking guidance.
The call will be broadcast live on Akamai's Investor Relations website. Live dial-in: U.S. (833) 634-5020; International (412) 902-4238; Password: Akamai Technologies call. A replay will be available for two weeks at (855) 669-9658 or (412) 317-0088 (Conference ID: 5393108). The archived webcast will be accessible via the Akamai website.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) launched ISV Catalyst on December 19, 2025, a referral-based partner program to help independent software vendors (ISVs) build, market, and sell solutions on Akamai’s globally distributed cloud platform.
The program removes early referral fees for the first year, offers co-marketing, prominent directory placement, visibility to Akamai's global sales force, and a streamlined on-ramp tied to Akamai Partner Connect and Qualified Compute Program.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced a strategic collaboration with Visa (NYSE: V) on Dec. 17, 2025 to integrate Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol with Akamai Cloud's edge-based behavioral intelligence and user recognition. The integration aims to authenticate AI shopping agents, link agents to underlying users, and protect payments to reduce fraud before transactions touch sensitive systems. Key figures cited include a 300% surge in AI-powered bot traffic year-over-year and > 25 billion AI bot requests during a two-month period, and the protocol is positioned to scale across 175 million Visa-accepting merchant locations.
The collaboration targets merchant confidence in agentic commerce by differentiating trusted AI agents from malicious bots and preserving user identity and payment integrity at global scale.
Akamai and Visa (V) announced a strategic collaboration to integrate Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol with Akamai Cloud capabilities to authenticate AI shopping agents, strengthen identity and user recognition, and help prevent fraud in agentic commerce.
Key points: Visa Trusted Agent Protocol will convey agent intent and payment signals; Akamai will apply edge-based behavioral intelligence and user recognition to detect anomalies before transactions touch sensitive systems. The release cites a 300% surge in AI-powered bot traffic and more than 25 billion AI bot requests in a two-month period, and notes Trusted Agent Protocol can scale to 175 million Visa-accepting merchant locations.