{"id":989209,"date":"2026-02-02T08:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989209"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:40:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:10:43","slug":"google-heist-how-a-techie-smuggled-over-2k-pages-of-ai-secrets-to-pitch-investors-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/google-heist-how-a-techie-smuggled-over-2k-pages-of-ai-secrets-to-pitch-investors-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Heist: How a techie smuggled over 2k pages of AI secrets to pitch investors abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cbetrayed both the US and his employer by stealing trade secrets about Google\u2019s AI technology on behalf of China\u2019s government.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cbetrayed both the US and his employer by stealing trade secrets about Google\u2019s AI technology on behalf of China\u2019s government.\u201d 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.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989209","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=989209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}