Amazon shuts down Shanghai AI research lab: FT report

Amazon is shutting down its Shanghai artificial intelligence lab, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside regular business hours.

Amazon’s decision to shut the lab comes amidst rising tensions between Washington and Beijing, with the U.S. increasing its scrutiny of American companies operating in China.

Wang Minjie, a scientist in the Shanghai lab, said his team was “being dissolved due to strategic adjustments amid US-China…