Microsoft Asks Hundreds of China-Based AI Staff to Consider Relocating Amid U.S.-China Tensions
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- Microsoft is asking hundreds of China-based cloud-computing and AI employees to consider transferring outside the country.
- The move is due to escalating U.S.-China tensions.
- The employees offered transfers are mostly engineers with Chinese nationality.
- Destinations include the U.S., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Approximately 700 to 800 employees received the offer.
- Employees have until early June to decide.
- Staying in China remains an option.
- Relocation aims to support Microsoft’s global cloud computing and AI ambitions.
- The Biden administration is tightening restrictions on China’s AI development capabilities.
- Potential new U.S. rules might require licenses for American cloud-computing companies to serve Chinese customers.
