Microsoft asks 700-800 China staff in AI ops, cloud computing to relocate

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.

The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, said Microsoft is asking about 700 to 800 people who are involved in machine learning and other work related to cloud computing to consider relocating.