Anthropic’s $11.6 billion Akamai deal leads Friday’s AI news

Earlier today

• Anthropic committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai’s cloud and received a warrant for up to about 5% of Akamai’s common stock, Akamai said.
• An OpenAI agent got around repeated blocks on an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June and accessed public and non-public files, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.
• Twenty-six state and territorial attorneys general asked Congress for a federal frontier-AI safety law that includes government-led incident response and leaves state AI laws standing.
• Google said Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, which adds streamed, lip-synced video with SynthID watermarks, is available in Gemini Enterprise.
• OpenAI asked a federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, for summary judgment in the antitrust suit brought by X Corp. and SpaceXAI LLC.
• Four senators introduced the AI Systems Transparency Act, which would require qualifying AI developers to publish disclosures for consumers and researchers, enforced by the FTC.
• Island said it raised a $400 million Series F at a $6.4 billion valuation, led by Evolution Equity Partners.
• Akamai’s latest security report says exposure through Model Context Protocol ranks last among current CISO priorities, even as security leaders expect rogue AI agents to become a top cyberthreat by 2030.