Off-Prem Baidu says the quiet part out loud – you can’t build AI infrastructure, so clouds can cash in CFO says GPU rentals are ‘structurally higher margin than CPU cloud’
AI + ML China's agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more!
Off-Prem Tencent says small clouds can’t get hardware, so big clouds can hike prices Baidu joins the Chinese cloud price rise party
AI + ML Baidu answers China's call for home-grown silicon with custom AI accelerators Chinese search giant plans to bring custom silicon to the rack scale in 2026 with 256- and 512-chip systems
AI + ML Lyft and Baidu plan Eurobocab launch, starting in UK and Germany next year Using the Apollo vehicles that already offer autonomous rides across China
AI + ML Uber to roll out thousands of robo-cabs built by China’s Baidu Coming soon, somewhere in the Middle East or Asia
AI + ML China's biggest car rental company now offers autonomous cars Three-seater from Baidu delivers itself, follows directions, then finds its way home
AI + ML Chinese AI marches on as Baidu makes its chatbot free, Alibaba scores Apple deal New ‘Deep Search’ thinking and planning bot to go up against peoples’ champion DeepSeek
AI + ML AI 'bubble' will burst 99 percent of players, says Baidu CEO Plus: Australian bank glitch empties accounts; China online slang crackdown; Toshiba teams with Airbus; and more
Research Researchers warn robot cars can be crashed with tinfoil and paint daubed on cardboard Use Baidu's platform to show how the fusion of Lidar, radar, and cameras can be fooled by stuff from your kids' craft box
Systems Samsung disputes report Nvidia isn't happy with its HBM quality PLUS: Indian TV channel adopts 24x7 AI anchors; Google building first Africa-Australia sub cable; Singtel's strategy reset; and more
AI + ML Two weeks ago, Alibaba Cloud bragged its AI was soaring. Now it's slashing prices ByteDance added a cheap service and the market followed it down
Personal Tech Baidu's robotaxi division to wheel into profit next year Expansion set for Wuhan. Chances this will go smoothly?
Research GhostStripe attack haunts self-driving cars by making them ignore road signs Cameras tested are specced for Baidu's Apollo
Bootnotes Baidu's PR head has a PR problem after workaholic social media posts Praising 996 culture is so Jack Ma 2019
Personal Tech Tesla maps out new territory in China with Baidu deal U-turn necessary to comply with Chinese law
Personal Tech Apple iPhone AI to be powered by Baidu in China, maybe Of course it's called ERNIE seeing as Google has BERT
AI + ML Baidu admits it may never get leading-edge GPUs again Execs swear Chinese cloud will beat local rivals with a superior software stack that makes AI sing
AI + ML Nvidia lures senior autonomous car developer from China's Baidu Jensen Huang's automotive engineering team has now pinched two significant Middle Kingdom talents
Cyber-crime 750 million Indian mobile subscribers' info for sale on dark web ALSO: Samsung turns to Baidu for Galaxy AI in China; Terraform Labs files for bankruptcy; India's supercomputing ambitions
AI + ML Baidu joins Tencent in downplaying impact of US chip bans on AI ambitions Stockpiled silicon, improving efficiency, and looking for alternative suppliers – while maybe taking a dig at Microsoft and OpenAI
AI + ML Baidu builds AI into cars so you can distract the kids with text-to-image tools Drawing flying pandas is useful. But Chinese web giant isn't saying how AI on wheels is practical
AI + ML Baidu boss says good luck talking AI to Beijing if you don't understand censorship Unlike AI's output, the web giant's profits are not hallucinatory
AI + ML Baidu sues Apple and anyone else in sight over ERNIE chatbot fakes Someone in China upset its tech was ripped off? The irony
AI + ML Baidu's AI chatbot ducks out of public demo Please, let's not go all Skynet on this: Baidu has previously said ERNIE just isn't that impressive up close
On-Prem Chinese web giant Baidu backs RISC-V for the datacenter Gee, why could that be? Nah, not that. AI contender might just want better SmartNICs
AI + ML Baidu's ERNIE chatbot has nothing to say about Xi Jinping Bot also botches some requests, but is about to be baked into cloud services anyway
AI + ML China’s Baidu claims its ERNIE chatbot reinvents the computing stack We're headed for models-as-a-service, apparently, and the OS doesn't matter
AI + ML China cuts off two chatbots: A local effort that flopped, and ChatGPT Meanwhile Baidu plans to add its Ernie generative AI to search in March
AI + ML AI giant Baidu shrugs off US chip export restrictions as having 'little impact' Says sanctions could even accelerate China's drive for silicon self-sufficiency
Science China's Baidu enters quantum computing chat with Qian Shi system A small but functional quantum system accelerating science, not search
AI + ML China allows robo taxis – without backup drivers – in parts of two major cities Baidu gets the fare in Chongqing and Wuhan
AI + ML Baidu crashes the cost of robo-taxis by 75 percent Steering wheel not required, if desired – or you could add a coffee machine
Legal China moves to protect offshore tech company listings Unusual move sees regulator open consultation on access to audit documents
SaaS Baidu added to list of Chinese companies facing US stock exchange delisting Vid-streamer iQIYI also earns a place
AI + ML Driverless car first: Chinese biz recalls faulty AI Pony.ai pulls three of its test fleet from Californian roads
AI + ML Baidu plans 100-city robot taxi rollout by 2030 AI cloud business booms, but not at levels – or in locations – that will worry rivals
AI + ML Baidu's AI predictions for 2022: Autonomous driving! Quantum computing! Space! Human-machine symbiosis! Did a computer program tell them to write this?
AI + ML Baidu unveils AI chip to go in its fancy-pants robocar – and anywhere else someone may want to use it Second-gen silicon to be more accessible for devs and applications
Security China stops networked vehicle data going offshore under new infosec rules Hands-off driving detectors required, over-the-air updates to be strictly regulated
AI + ML Chinese web giant Baidu unveils Level 4 robo-taxi that costs $75k to make Plans to roll 1,000 of 'em off the production line in three years
AI + ML Robo-taxis hit the streets of Beijing – albeit a small fleet in a geo-fenced suburb Code for the Baidu Apollo brains of the service is yours for the taking on GitHub, too
AI + ML A keyboard? How quaint: Logitech and Baidu link arms to make an AI-enabled, voice-transcribing mouse Dictates 3 languages, translates into 6, available only in China
PaaS + IaaS China's clouds boom but they're collectively earning less than Azure alone Alibaba in front with Huawei and Tencent on a second tier
Applications Google binned two apps by China’s Baidu, which says researchers got it wrong by linking it to personal info leaks Palo Alto Networks spotted subscriber IDs and MAC addresses on the move
SaaS Baidu cloud catches up by offloading cloudy networking and storage to SmartNICs Also claims database breakthroughs with home-brewed MySQL-compatible code
Personal Tech Taiwan turfs out video streamers run by China’s web giants On regulatory grounds, but it’s hard not to chalk this up as more anti-China action
SaaS Donald Trump thought-bubbles an Alibaba ban as Chinese clouds clam up about Clean Cloud plan President says ‘other’ Chinese companies could feel the ban-hammer
Applications India bans 59 apps it says have privacy, national security problems. In a massive coincidence, they’re all Chinese They may have a point with some of them, though
AI + ML Google flings $25m at Social Good AI contest, Baidu's whips up neural-net camera to treat eye diseases, and more OpenAI builds curious bots and Nvidia's on the lookout for fresh ML talent
AI + ML Linguists, update your resumes because Baidu thinks it has cracked fast AI translation Let's hope this doesn't accidentally kick off a war
AI + ML US military chucks $2bn at AI, Google touts machine-learning data search, and more The AI stories you may have missed this week
AI + ML An AI a day keeps the doctor away... Neural net software gets better at clocking cancer tumors Unclear if Baidu's tech really is better than a human medic
AI + ML Who wanted a future in which AI can copy your voice and say things you never uttered? Who?! Don't worry, this technology isn't very convincing... er, yet
AI + ML Baidu puts open source deep learning into smartphones Computer vision, deep learning, and the camera in your phone
Science Baidu-backed fund has a billion quid for 100 self-driving projects China's Google also updated its open-source autonomous vehicle software
Science Microsoft offers cloud to Baidu, gets autonomous car in return Self-driving project could be a smart move by Redmond
AI + ML China's Baidu, GPU monster Nvidia cuddle up at Beijing dev bash Robo-ride car tech will use Drive PX 2 hardware, plus other bits from the conference
AI + ML Q. Why is Baidu sharing its secret self-driving sauce? A. To help China corner the market Web giant wants to accelerate collaboration amid Western competition
AI + ML Baidu teaches AI 'baby' bots English by ordering them around a maze First step in developing family robots with general intelligence
AI + ML Baidu peddles PaddlesPaddles, floats open source AI tech Deep learning suite with Python front end
AI + ML Baidu tech chief: AI smart enough to take our jobs, not our lives. Yet Humanity about to swap tedium of work, for tedium of idleness
Legal Snake oil ads land China's top search engine in trouble Chinese regulators want Baidu to stop advertising quacks' one weird trick
Security Browser made by China's top search engine leaks almost everything Hide our snooping? Why bother asks China's Google clone
AI + ML China's Google clone Baidu also open-sources its AI blueprints Joins Google and Facebook in trying to grab market share
OSes Sino the times, as Microsoft makes Baidu default search engine in China Yusuf Mehdi: We’re still ‘deeply committed’ to Bing. Mmmmm
On-Prem Baidu, Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm join to invest in CloudFlare Happy to take the money, but what's in it for the Big Boys?
HPC Bad Baidu boffin boss banished for bypassing bot body's bylaws Chinese biz fires team leader after competition banishment
On-Prem You've been a Baidu boy! Tech giant caught cheating on AI tests Looks like they may need to start developing some non-artificial integrity
Personal Tech AI pioneer reckons China's where the Rise of the Machines will start ‘More willingness to challenge basic assumptions’
On-Prem Uber and car makers jockey for Nokia's 'HERE' maps – report Who needs Google when you can have your own maps?
Channel Google is tech industry and world's most valuable brand as Apple rots Sony drops from top 100 as Chinese web brands surge up the charts
On-Prem Baidu poaches Google Brain inventor for Silicon Valley AI project Andrew Ng is hot property for Chinese search giant
Legal Judge rules Baidu political censorship was an editorial right Search engine results get freedom of speech protection in the US
Security Google encrypts Chinese search requests to subvert Great Firewall Not that it has many users on the Middle Kingdom's mainland
Legal Chinese web firms sue search giant Baidu for video piracy But MPAA NOT joining copyright violations claim
Personal Tech Google plonks down cash for Foxconn's head-mounted display patents 'Our Glass division will have those, thank you'
Devops China's Baidu builds new type of App Store 'Light App' framework loads web apps onto smartmobes
Applications Baidu shells out $1.9bn for Android app distie in 'China's biggest IT deal' 'Backup' app store augments Chinese search engine's existing fandroid funhouse
On-Prem Chinese search giant Baidu blows $1.9 BEELION on app store Acquisition will buy it a ready-made audience of mobile downloaders
Legal US judge revives lawsuit vs Baidu and China Pro-democracy group allowed to throw censorship sueball
On-Prem Baidu muscles in on Google’s turf with Silicon Valley deep learning lab Chinese search giant beds down next to Apple in Cupertino
Legal US democracy activists lose case against Baidu and China Manhattan court is not the place to sue a country, says judge
Devops Baidu offers English-speaking devs chance to crack China Fortune and glory await in world's largest smartphone market
Systems Chinese search engine giant Baidu forges ARM servers Marvell notches another design win after Dell and Codethink boxes
On-Prem Baidu income soars but mobile success will take years Analysts point to lack of coherent mobile strategy
On-Prem China's tech elite crack Forbes' Rich List Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba founders in with the big boys
On-Prem Baidu's patriotic doodle ruffles Japanese feathers Chinese users offered chance to plant flag on disputed islands, instead of rioting
Software Baidu launches mobile browser, tosses currency into clouds Hopes for 80 per cent penetration by year-end
