Baidu Inc

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· 3 days ago

Baidu reported second-quarter revenue of 31.33 billion yuan, missing analyst estimates, as its core online marketing business declined 19% to 13.1 billion yuan. However, the company's AI-powered cloud and applications segment grew 25% to 12.5 billion yuan, reflecting rising corporate demand for AI infrastructure amid intensifying competition from ByteDance and Alibaba.

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· 2 months ago

The blacklist bars Defense Department contracts and chills commercial relationships with US firms - a material overhang for cloud revenue and US institutional sentiment. China retaliated Monday with export controls on ten US defense firms.