Baidu adds OpenClaw AI to search app ahead of Lunar New Year
Baidu will let users directly instruct OpenClaw AI in its search app, integrating task-based actions for an estimated 700 million users ahead of Lunar N...
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- China
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- Chart time
- · 16:03 GMT+8 local · Cast for the report's publication time
- Chart location
- China (35.00°N, 105.00°E)
Tropical zodiac · Placidus houses · mean lunar nodes · Waning Crescent
Tightest aspects
- Mars quincunx Jupiterorb 0.04°
- Saturn conjunct Neptuneorb 0.61°
- Venus semisextile Plutoorb 0.85°
- Moon sextile Venusorb 1.05°
- Moon biquintile Uranusorb 1.33°
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- Sun24°16′ Aqu
- Moon2°10′ Cap
- Mercury10°13′ Pis
- Venus3°13′ Pis
- Mars16°08′ Aqu
- Jupiter16°11′ Can R
- Saturn29°53′ Pis
- Uranus27°29′ Tau
- Neptune0°29′ Ari
- Pluto4°04′ Aqu
- Cast for the moment the source report was published, not a verified time of the event itself.
Baidu is about to pull a major lever inside China’s daily digital routine: starting Friday (2026-02-13), it plans to let users of its smartphone search app directly instruct OpenClaw AI to do tasks—not just answer queries—rolling the feature into the core search experience ahead of Lunar New Year.
With an estimated 700 million users, this isn’t a minor UI tweak. It’s a behavioral rewrite at national scale: from “search and click” to “delegate and depend.” The sky pattern behind the timing reads like a blueprint for accelerated adoption—plus the kind of real-world friction that forces rapid rules, limits, and revisions once the hype meets edge cases.
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