Japan has officially broken the world record for internet speed, achieving an unimaginable 1.02 petabits per second. To put this into perspective, one petabit equals one million gigabits. This speed is so fast that an entire streaming platform like Netflix—or even several of them—could be downloaded in under a second. • The breakthrough was achieved by Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). • Researchers used a new type of optical fiber that contains four