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Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, reckons he can handle edge AI alone

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Date Published: 2026-01-20

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Simon Sharwood

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An interview with Akamai’s CEO outlines the company’s stance against online piracy, rejecting free-speech defenses and highlighting measures such as watermarking, token-based viewer validation, and swift takedown responses, alongside a call for public–private partnerships to deter piracy. The discussion also covers Akamai’s push into edge AI via Linode, planning distributed inferencing infrastructure across roughly 100 cities using CPUs and older GPUs colocated with CDN points of presence.

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