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Microsoft offers relocation to hundreds of China-based AI staff amid U.S.-China tech tensions
Microsoft has reportedly asked employees at its China-based cloud-computing and artificial-intelligence operations to consider relocation outside of China.
Microsoft has reportedly asked China-based cloud computing and artificial intelligence operations employees to consider relocating out of the country, as Washington cracks down on Beijing's access to the advanced technology. The Wall Street Journal broke the story on Thursday, reporting that the staff, mostly comprising Chinese engineers, had been offered the opportunity to transfer to countries including the U.S., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, according to unnamed sources. In the past two years, the U.S. has placed waves of restrictions on China limiting its ability to buy advanced chips and chip-making equipment that can be deployed to train AI models.
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