{"id":141059,"date":"2025-11-18T10:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/141059\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:47:09","slug":"baidu-posts-worst-sales-fall-on-record-despite-major-ai-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/141059\/","title":{"rendered":"Baidu Posts Worst Sales Fall on Record Despite Major AI Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/BIDU:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Baidu Inc.<\/a> posted its biggest quarterly revenue slide on record, calling into question a beleaguered advertising business while it tries to keep up in the artificial intelligence race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Revenue declined 7% to 31.2 billion yuan ($4.4 billion) for the quarter ended September, compared with the average projection for 30.9 billion yuan. It swung to a net loss of about 11.2 billion yuan, reflecting writedowns on assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baidu Inc. posted its biggest quarterly revenue slide on record, calling into question a beleaguered advertising business while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1032,365,15374,16544,6015,363,364,27099,607,645,4377,220,111,139,69,95695,145],"class_list":["post-141059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-advertising","tag-ai","tag-alibaba-group-holding-sp-adr","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-apps","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-baidu-inc-spon-adr","tag-china","tag-china-renminbi-spot","tag-executives","tag-markets","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-robin-yanhong","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}