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Akamai Technologies, Inc. reports developments in cybersecurity, cloud computing, and content delivery for enterprises, public-sector customers, media operators, and digital businesses. The company describes its business through Security, Delivery and other cloud applications, and Cloud Infrastructure Services, including Akamai Cloud and edge-based infrastructure.
Recurring updates include quarterly financial results, API security capabilities such as Security Posture Center and code-to-runtime mapping, brand-impersonation protection through Akamai Brand Guardian, threat research from State of the Internet reports, and partner or contract activity involving compute, streaming analytics, application delivery, and public-sector procurement.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) released its 2026 State of the Internet report showing a 300% surge in AI bot activity in 2025, with the media sector (including publishing) capturing 13% of AI bot traffic and publishing accounting for 40% of that activity.
The report highlights AI fetchers and training crawlers as distinct threats, finds AI chatbots cut referral traffic by ~96% in Q4 2024, and offers a practical AI bot management checklist for publishers.
Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) will hold a conference call on Thursday, May 7, 2026 at 4:30 PM ET to announce first quarter 2026 financial results. The call may include forward-looking financial guidance and will be webcast live on Akamai’s Investor Relations page. A replay will be available for two weeks.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced a channel and technology alliance with Arrow Electronics enterprise computing solutions to expand access to Akamai cloud, security, and application delivery solutions across Arrow’s partner ecosystem.
The partnership aims to move applications closer to users, apply layered protection across applications and APIs, streamline procurement and onboarding, and accelerate time to revenue via enablement and support.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) secured a new State of Montana data communications contract vehicle effective April 1, 2026. The agreement creates a pre-competed procurement path for state, local, and education customers to acquire Akamai cloud and security solutions through an authorized vehicle.
The contract enables faster deployments, meets mandatory pre-competed purchasing requirements, and uses Carahsoft to fulfill orders and provide technical guidance for participating agencies.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) launched Akamai Brand Guardian on March 25, 2026, an AI-powered evolution of Brand Protector that monitors the web, social, email, app stores, and the dark web to detect and remove brand impersonation.
It offers continuous, risk-based enforcement with automated takedowns the company says perform with 99.99% accuracy, and is available now for enterprise customers.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced on March 24, 2026 new AI-powered capabilities for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation to accelerate Zero Trust adoption. Enhancements include continuous discovery, AI-driven application understanding, proof-driven enforcement, continuous risk containment, and delegated app-owner workflows to speed policy creation and safe enforcement.
The release emphasizes automated policy generation, simulation before enforcement, and runtime assurance for hybrid, cloud, Kubernetes, and AI workloads.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) released its 2026 Apps, APIs, and DDoS State of the Internet report on March 17, 2026, warning that APIs are the primary attack surface as cybercriminals industrialize attacks against AI-enabled infrastructure.
Key metrics: Layer 7 DDoS attacks surged 104% over two years, daily API attacks rose 113% YoY, web application attacks increased 73% (2023–2025), and 87% of organizations reported an API-related incident in 2025.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) launched Akamai Inference Cloud as the first global-scale implementation of the NVIDIA AI Grid on March 16, 2026, routing AI inference across its 4,400+ edge locations and multi-thousand GPU clusters using NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs.
The platform includes intelligent orchestration to optimize cost, latency, and throughput and is available today for qualified enterprise customers.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced that Digital Convergence Technologies (DCT) joined the Akamai Partner Connect Program on March 13, 2026, forming a partnership to simplify cloud modernization through refactoring, architecture modernization, and managed services for mid-market and enterprise clients.
The collaboration targets media, healthcare, and fintech verticals and emphasizes cost optimization, compliance (HIPAA, ISO 27001, HITRUST), and plug-and-play streaming solutions for mid-market media customers.
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.