Microsoft Urges Ai, Cloud Computing Employees To Transfer Outside China, Will Impact Ad Industry

Microsoft is asking its China-based employees working on AI and cloud-computing projects to consider transferring outside the country due to escalating tensions between the U.S. and China. Revenue for the quarter ending March 31, 2024 saw a 17% increase, with cloud computing being a major contributor. The company is offering relocation assignments to its mostly Chinese nationalist engineers to countries such as the U.S., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.