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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 May 20, 2026 State of the Internet Security report focused on financial services. The research finds cybercriminals and pro-Iran hacktivists increasingly using AI-driven DDoS and bots against banking, payments, APIs, and applications, with median DDoS duration up 738% since 2024.
Key data points include high rates of API incidents, banking-focused web and API attacks, widespread ransomware exposure, a 147% surge in advanced bot activity, and distinct regional attack patterns.
Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM) priced an upsized private offering of $1.5B 0% convertible senior notes due 2030 and $1.5B due 2032 to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A.
Net proceeds are estimated at $2.958B–$3.452B, mainly to fund Cloud Infrastructure Services capex, note hedges and a $350M share repurchase at $141.34 per share.
Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM) launched AI Brand Presence, a product that optimizes website content for AI search and agentic traffic. It automatically reformats content for LLMs, monitors AI bot activity, and adds edge security, aiming to improve brand visibility and control in AI-generated answers.
Pilot use on Akamai’s own site reportedly cut data loads by 99%, increased citations 85%, and lifted brand presence 364% in general searches, with a 133% presence increase in ChatGPT versus competitors.
Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM) plans a private offering of $1.3 billion 0% convertible senior notes due 2030 and $1.3 billion 0% convertible senior notes due 2032 to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A.
Net proceeds are expected to fund Cloud Infrastructure Services capital expenditures, general corporate purposes, related hedge and warrant transactions, and approximately $350 million of share repurchases.
Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) entered a definitive agreement to acquire LayerX, a browser-based AI usage control and secure enterprise browser provider, for about US$205 million. The deal enhances Akamai’s Zero Trust and AI usage control capabilities across users, applications, and infrastructure.
The transaction is expected to close in Q3 2026, be dilutive to 2026 non-GAAP EPS by about US$0.12, and bring expected year-end annual recurring revenue of roughly US$10 million from the LayerX business.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) reported Q1 2026 revenue of $1.074 billion, up 6% year-over-year (4% FX‑adjusted). Cloud Infrastructure Services revenue rose 40% to $95 million; Security revenue grew 11% to $590 million. GAAP EPS was $0.71 and non‑GAAP EPS was $1.61. A frontier model provider committed $1.8 billion over seven years for CIS. The company repurchased $206 million of stock and provided Q2 and full‑year 2026 non‑GAAP guidance.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) unveiled Security Posture Center and enhanced code-to-runtime mapping on May 5, 2026 to help organizations measure API security posture and link live API activity to specific source code ownership.
Security Posture Center maps fragmented API findings into policy-based controls for compliance tracking. Code-to-runtime mapping ties live API traffic to repositories, files, and last committers to speed remediation and reduce MTTR.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) was named a Customers’ Choice in the 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for API Protection on April 30, 2026. Akamai earned a 93% recommendation rate and was the only vendor to receive this distinction.
The recognition reflects end-user ratings for API protection products amid rising API and API-based AI security risks.
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) released the fourth annual API Security Impact Survey on April 28, 2026, based on 1,840 security professionals across six industries and ten countries. The study finds 87% of organizations experienced an API-related incident in the past year (up from 76% in 2022), an average of 3.5 incidents per organization, and an average incident cost exceeding US$700,000.
Key gaps include falling API visibility (only 23% now know which APIs expose sensitive data, vs 40% in 2022) and growing AI-related targeting (38% rank AI security top priority; 42% report APIs that power AI/LLMs were attacked).
Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced on April 17, 2026 that MediaMelon joined the Akamai Qualified Compute Partner Program as an ISV to run SmartSight natively on Akamai Cloud. SmartSight’s analytics run on Linode Kubernetes Engine with Akamai NodeBalancers and multi-region deployment to reduce telemetry latency and support data sovereignty.
Together, Akamai CDN telemetry and SmartSight player-side analytics provide unified, real-time visibility of streaming quality and advertising performance for OTT, CTV, FAST, and live operators.