Former Google Engineer Convicted of Economic Espionage and AI Technology Theft for China

Summary

A federal jury in San Francisco convicted former Google software engineer Linwei Ding (also known as Leon Ding), 38, on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of trade secret theft for stealing thousands of pages of confidential information about Google's AI technology for the benefit of the People's Republic of China. The verdict followed an 11-day trial before U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in the Northern District of California. The case marks the first-ever conviction on AI-