Microsoft Asks Hundreds of China-Based AI Staff to Consider Relocating Amid U.S.-China Tensions

Microsoft asks some China-based staff to consider relocating amid Sino-U.S. tensions

Microsoft is asking about 700 to 800 people who are involved in machine learning and other cloud computing-related work to consider relocating, according to the Wall Street Journal

Microsoft asks AI employees in China to relocate amid tensions between the U.S. and China

Microsoft is reportedly asking hundreds of its employees in China to consider relocating outside of the country amid growing tensions between the U.S. and China.Read more...

Microsoft reportedly tells hundreds of AI and cloud staff to consider leaving China

Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesMicrosoft is offering relocation to hundreds of China-based employees.The offer has been made to machine learning and cloud workers, The Wall Street Journal reported.The report comes amid escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing over a range of issues.Microsoft is reportedly asking up to 800 China-based employees if they'd consider leaving the country as tensions between the US and China grow.The company is off…

Microsoft Asks Hundreds of China-Based AI Staff to Consider Relocating Amid U.S.-China Tensions

Request comes as Biden administration toughens controls on China’s access to cutting-edge American technology

Microsoft asks some China staff to relocate amid Sino-US tensions

Microsoft is asking some of its China-based employees to consider transferring outside the country, the company said on Thursday, as relations between U.S. and China grow increasingly strained over technologies like artificial intelligence and semiconductors.

Microsoft asks staff in China to relocate amid escalating Washington-Beijing tech tensions

Microsoft is offering about 700 to 800 people – mostly Chinese engineers – involved in cloud computing and machine learning areas if they would like to relocate from China to countries including the US, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, according to the Wall Street Journal's unnamed sources.Read Entire Article