Google Heist: How a techie smuggled over 2k pages of AI secrets to pitch investors abroad
A federal jury in San Francisco convicted a former Google software engineer on multiple counts of economic espionage and theft of confidential artificial technology. Having found 38-year-old Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, guilty of the US crimes, the FBI announced Friday, the individual “betrayed both the US and his employer by stealing trade secrets about Google’s AI technology on behalf of China’s government.”
As already revealed in a previous press release by the Department of Justice, Ding, who is a Chinese national, was residing in Newark, California, at the time of his arrest in March 2024.
