{"id":988728,"date":"2026-01-30T09:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988728"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:11:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:41:51","slug":"ex-google-engineer-convicted-of-stealing-ai-secrets-for-chinese-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/ex-google-engineer-convicted-of-stealing-ai-secrets-for-chinese-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Google engineer convicted of stealing AI secrets for Chinese companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Google software engineer Linwei Ding was convicted \u200dby a federal jury in San Francisco on Thursday of stealing AI trade \u2060secrets from the U.S. tech giant to benefit two Chinese companies he was secretly working for, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Ding, a 38-year-old Chinese \u200cnational, was \u200cfound guilty after an 11-day trial of seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts \u200cof theft of trade secrets for stealing thousands of pages of confidential information. <\/p>\n<p>Each economic espionage charge carries a maximum 15-year prison term and $5 million fine, while each trade secrets charge carries a maximum 10-year term and $250,000 \u200bfine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Google software engineer Linwei Ding was convicted \u200dby a federal jury in San Francisco on Thursday of stealing AI trade \u2060secrets from the U.S. tech giant to benefit two Chinese companies he was secretly working for, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday. Ding, a 38-year-old Chinese \u200cnational, was \u200cfound guilty after an 11-day trial of seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts \u200cof theft of trade secrets for stealing thousands of pages of confidential information. Each economic espionage charge carries a maximum 15-year prison term and $5 million fine, while each trade secrets charge carries a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}