"We can expect to see similar cases as the competition heats up between the U.S. and China to dominate AI - just like what happened previously with semiconductor developers."
"Silicon Valley is at the forefront of artificial intelligence innovation, pioneering transformative work that drives economic growth and strengthens our national security,"
"The jury delivered a clear message today that the theft of this valuable technology will not go unpunished. We will vigorously protect American intellectual capital from foreign interests that seek to gain an unfair competitive advantage while putting our national security at risk."
Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, was convicted by a federal jury in San Francisco on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets. He stole and uploaded more than two thousand pages of confidential information containing Google's AI trade secrets to his personal Google Cloud account while employed at Google from May 2022 to April 2023. He was initially indicted in March 2024 and later faced a superseding indictment on the charges of conviction. Prosecutors allege he engaged in talks for a chief technology officer role at a Chinese AI startup within weeks of beginning the thefts. Observers expect similar cases as U.S.-China competition to dominate AI intensifies, echoing earlier disputes over semiconductor technology.
Read at Axios
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