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Google Engineer Found Guilty of Sending AI Secrets to China

6 days ago
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-google-engineer-found-guilty-economic-espionage-and-theft-confidential-ai-technology
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  • #economic espionage
  • #trade secrets
  • #AI technology
  • Former Google engineer Linwei Ding convicted of stealing AI trade secrets for China.
  • Ding stole over 2000 pages of confidential AI-related documents from Google.
  • He secretly worked with two PRC-based tech companies while employed at Google.
  • Ding planned to use stolen Google technology to build an AI supercomputer in China.
  • The stolen secrets included details on Google's Tensor Processing Units and GPU systems.
  • Ding applied for a PRC government-sponsored talent plan to aid China's tech growth.
  • He faces up to 10 years per theft count and 15 years per espionage count.
  • The case highlights the FBI's focus on protecting U.S. tech from foreign espionage.
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