{
  "id": 19689,
  "title": "How global AI boom is intensifying US-China undersea stand-off",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/31/how-global-ai-boom-is-intensifying-us-china-undersea-stand-off",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-07-31T15:00:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
    "slug": "reuters-business-via-scmp",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3362288/how-global-ai-boom-intensifying-us-china-undersea-stand"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The US-China tech rivalry has escalated into a deeper battle over undersea fibre-optic cables powering the global AI boom. As demand for cross-border data to power and train advanced systems intensifies, so does the high-stakes battle to control critical network ecosystems – mainly submarine cables that send nearly 99 per cent of intercontinental data traffic at immense speed. Beijing on Tuesday…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}