Akamai’s AI story has switched from sweaters to robots in the space of three months. On the company’s Q1 2026 earnings call, CEO Tom Leighton offered a consumer-facing example of the AI workloads Akamai expects to capture. An online shopper wants to see what they look like wearing a sweater, so an e-commerce site generates a personalized video of them wearing it. Multiply that across millions of shoppers, multiple garments and multiple retailers, and an unassuming lightweight feature starts generating serious compute, video and delivery traffic. That prospect of higher traffic through non-entertainment user-generated AI video, outside of the core focus of AI-generated video on social media platforms today, is one future business that Akamai is prepared to accommodate—and others…