around the world. A Huawei spokesman confirmed the lab's existence, but gave no further details.Business Insider found the lab located at 1 St Pancras Square in Kings Cross, a newly redeveloped area nicknamed the"knowledge quarter" for the growing numbers of AI labs and tech firms taking up residence.
Huawei's lab is directly opposite the Google's new massive London headquarters, which is still under construction. Google and its AI research arm DeepMind remain housed in a separate building on St Pancras Square while the headquarters is being built.Huawei is listed as an occupant of 1 St Pancras Square.in January for alleged trade secret theft and bank fraud.
The US government has also barred Huawei from doing business with US firms with special licenses, claiming that the firm spies on behalf of the Chinese government. Huawei has denied the claim, but the US trade blacklist meansIts position in the UK is also precarious. The British governmentwhether Huawei's telecommunications equipment should be completely excluded from the UK's next-generation 5G mobile networks.
The US is pressuring its allies to lock Huawei out of their 5G networks completely, although in the UK all the major mobile operators are already rolling out their new networks with Huawei kit.that Huawei's mobile network equipment had major flaws and"significant technical issues." Huawei said it took those concerns seriously.