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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) 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.
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).