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The Quiet Cable War: Why Japan's Subsea Pivot Matters More Than the Headlines

Tokyo is repositioning for a slice of the undersea cable business as AI demand reshapes the plumbing of the global internet. The story underneath is about who builds the next layer of the physical web.

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