JD.com Q4 Earnings: Positive Growth Trends, Bearish Consumer Spending Trends

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Robert Way In an earnings season replete with mentions of artificial intelligence ("AI") and "autonomous technology," the Q4 earnings release by Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:JD) - which easily ranks in the Top 5 or Top 10 e-commerce companies worldwide - stood out in that there was virtually no mention of either, despite sustained efforts in AI, Big Data and robotics over several years, continual development of drones for delivery for the better part of a decade, and the release of a ChatGPT-like large language model ("LLM") for enterprises last year. The company was deemed to have beaten analysts'...