{"id":1029598,"date":"2026-08-19T07:44:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029598"},"modified":"2026-08-19T07:59:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:29:52","slug":"chinas-baidu-betting-on-ai-posts-fifth-straight-quarterly-revenue-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/chinas-baidu-betting-on-ai-posts-fifth-straight-quarterly-revenue-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Baidu, betting on AI, posts fifth straight quarterly revenue drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baidu posted a fifth straight drop in quarterly revenue on Tuesday as the Chinese tech giant expressed confidence in its transition to artificial intelligence services to drive long-term growth. <\/p>\n<p>The Beijing-based search engine provider, sometimes called China&#8217;s Google, has for years heralded the potential of AI in the country. <\/p>\n<p>Baidu pushed aggressively into AI by recruiting prominent researchers and with the release of its &#8220;Ernie&#8221; tool &#8212; one of China&#8217;s first AI chatbots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baidu posted a fifth straight drop in quarterly revenue on Tuesday as the Chinese tech giant expressed confidence in its transition to artificial intelligence services to drive long-term growth. The Beijing-based search engine provider, sometimes called China&#8217;s Google, has for years heralded the potential of AI in the country. Baidu pushed aggressively into AI by recruiting prominent researchers and with the release of its &#8220;Ernie&#8221; tool &#8212; one of China&#8217;s first AI chatbots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029619,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029598\/revisions\/1029619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}