CNBC: Former Google engineer found guilty of espionage and theft of AI tech. “The jury found 38 year-old Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, guilty on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets related to stealing thousands of pages of confidential information from Google to benefit the People’s Republic of China, according to court documents.”

📢⚠️⚖️ A former #Google software engineer was found guilty of stealing over 2,000 pages of confidential AI trade secrets, after investigators traced the theft of custom chip designs and supercomputing data linked to #China.

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CBS News: Chinese national accused of stealing AI secrets from Google facing new charges. “The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that a grand jury indicted Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets. Ding, a 38-year-old software engineer who had lived in Newark, was previously indicted on four counts of theft of […]

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