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The biggest infrastructure deal of the week belongs to Akamai, which landed a seven-year, one point eight billion dollar contract with Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude. On the same night, rival Cloudflare announced it was cutting roughly a fifth of its workforce as it pivots toward artificial intelligence. Two companies, same bet, very different fortunes.
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, the Senate Banking Committee has scheduled a markup hearing for the Clarity Act on March fourteenth. The bill is aimed at establishing clearer market structure rules for digital assets, and Thursday's session could be a pivotal step toward giving the crypto industry the regulatory framework it has long been pushing for.
And in a reminder that the physical world still matters, defense company Saab has unveiled a new anti-tank round designed to defeat high-tech explosive reactive armor, the kind of protection modern battlefield vehicles increasingly rely on. It's a development that underscores how advances in materials and munitions continue to trade blows in an arms race with no obvious finish line.
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