On July 7, Akamai Technologies rose 5.31% in pre-market trading, trading at $117.1/share, with turnover of approximately $1.74 million.

On the news front, Oppenheimer recently issued a research note stating that the market is undervaluing Akamai's growth opportunity in cloud computing and AI inferencing, arguing the company's cloud infrastructure services are at a growth inflection point. Additionally, on July 2, the company completed its acquisition of secure enterprise browser provider LayerX, further expanding its zero trust security and AI usage control capabilities.

The positive catalysts build on earlier developments including an $1.8 billion seven-year cloud infrastructure services agreement signed with Anthropic, and BofA Securities upgrading the stock to Buy with a $175 price target, calling Akamai a credible AI infrastructure platform. BofA noted Cloud Infrastructure Services grew 40% year-over-year, with momentum supported by AI workloads and edge inference use cases. These multiple tailwinds continue to drive market reassessment of the company's AI and cloud business prospects.

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