Former Google Engineer Convicted of Stealing AI Secrets for China

A 38 year old was convicted on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets following an 11 day trial.

Former Google software engineer Linwei Ding was found guilty of stealing over 2,000 pages of confidential AI trade secrets, after FBI and DoJ investigators traced the theft of custom chip designs and supercomputing data linked to China.

In a major ruling for Silicon Valley, a federal jury has found a former Google software engineer guilty of stealing massive amounts of confidential artificial intelligence technology to benefit companies in China.

Linwei Ding, a 38-year-old also known as Leon Ding, was convicted on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets following an 11-day trial. According to the US Department of Justice (DoJ), Ding spent nearly a year, from May 2022 to April 2023, secretly moving over 2,000 pages of ...