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The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. - Microsoft is asking hundreds of employees in China to consider transferring outside the country amid a rise in tensions between Washington and Beijing around critical technology like cloud computing and artificial intelligence. - International Business Machines is selling to Palo Alto Networks its cloud-based QRadar cybersecurity software as the two technology companies deepen their partnership in jointly selling and developing security products powered by artificial intelligence.

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. Microsoft remains committed to China and will continue to operate there and other markets, the spokesperson said.

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. Microsoft remains committed to China and will continue to operate there and other markets, the spokesperson said.

The employees, mostly engineers with Chinese nationality, were earlier in the week offered an option to transfer to countries including the U.S., Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. The move comes amid spiralling US-China relations as the Biden administration cracks down on various sectors of Chinese imports, including electric vehicle (EV) batteries, computer chips and medical products. A Microsoft spokesperson told the Journal that providing internal opportunities is part of its global business and confirmed the company had shared an optional internal transfer opportunity with a subset of employees.

The request comes as the Biden administration toughens controls on China’s access to cutting-edge American technology.

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