Former Google Engineer Convicted of Stealing Thousands of AI Trade Secrets for PRC

A federal jury in San Francisco convicted former Google engineer Linwei Ding on multiple counts of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets related to advanced artificial intelligence technology. The case marks the first conviction on AI-related economic espionage charges, highlighting the high stakes in global AI development. Ding was found to have stolen over two thousand pages of confidential data benefiting ventures aligned with the People’s Republic of China.