US EditionFormer Google Engineer Found Guilty of Stealing AI Secrets for Chinese Firms
Ding Linwei faces up to 15 years in prison for stealing AI trade secrets including hardware and software platform details to aid two Chinese firms, prosecutors said.
- On Jan 29, a federal jury in San Francisco convicted Ding Linwei, former Google software engineer, on seven counts each of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets.
- According to evidence presented at trial, Ding Linwei stole more than 2,000 pages of Google AI documents between May 2022 and April 2023 while affiliating with two China-based technology companies and pitching investors he could build an AI supercomputer by copying Google’s technology.
- The government said Ding Linwei transferred more than 1,000 unique files totaling roughly 14,000 pages, uploaded material to his personal Google Cloud account, and targeted Google’s supercomputing data centres and proprietary hardware/software.
- He faces significant sentencing exposure, including up to 15 years per economic espionage count and 10 years per theft count, with a status conference on Feb. 3 and release ordered by U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria.
- The prosecution was coordinated through the Disruptive Technology Strike Force, and Google cooperated with investigators but was not charged and did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Conservative AngleEx-Google engineer found guilty of stealing AI secrets for Chinese companies
A federal jury found a former Google engineer guilty of stealing artificial intelligence (AI) trade secrets and spying for Chinese tech companies, ending a high-profile Silicon Valley trial.As detailed in court documents obtained by FOX Business, Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, was convicted Thursday on all counts after an 11-day trial in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.Prosecutors alleged Ding secretly stole proprietary AI-related da…
Former Google engineer found guilty of stealing AI secrets for Chinese firms
A former Google engineer has been convicted on multiple federal charges for stealing the tech giant's trade secrets on artificial intelligence to benefit Chinese companies he secretly worked for, federal prosecutors said.
Man stole thousands of pages of confidential information related to Google hardware and software infrastructure
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