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Is Microsoft quiet-quitting China?

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What happened: This month, a couple of clues point to the possibility that Microsoft may be shoring up its China sanctions compliance, but doing so as quietly as possible:

On March 31, Chinese and Western media reported that Microsoft had shuttered its Shanghai AI Lab, closing offices and moving ou...