"A former software engineer at Google has been convicted of stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets for the benefit of China, the U.S. Department of Justice said. A federal jury on Thursday convicted Linwei Ding, 38, of seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets after an 11-day trial in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California. The verdict marked the Justice Department's first conviction on AI-related economic espionage charges, according to a statement from Roman Rozhavsky, assistant director of the FBI's counterintelligence and espionage division."
"Ding stole more than 2,000 pages of confidential information containing Google's AI trade secrets from the company's network and uploaded them to his personal Google cloud account between May 2022 and April 2023, according to evidence presented at trial. At the same time, he secretly worked with two Beijing-based technology companies, staging discussions with one early-stage company to be its chief technology officer, and later acting as founder and chief executive of a second startup, prosecutors said."
Linwei Ding, a former Google software engineer, was convicted on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets after an 11-day federal trial. The conviction was the Justice Department's first on AI-related economic espionage charges. Ding stole more than 2,000 pages of confidential materials containing Google's AI trade secrets and uploaded them to his personal Google cloud account between May 2022 and April 2023. He simultaneously worked with two Beijing-based technology companies, negotiated to become chief technology officer of one, and founded and led another startup. He told investors he could build an AI supercomputer by copying Google's technology, downloaded the materials to his personal computer shortly before resigning from Google in December 2023, and applied for a Chinese government-sponsored talent plan stating plans to help China develop computing power infrastructure.
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