The U.S. Department of Justice has accused former Google engineer Linwei Ding of leaking trade secrets to Chinese firms in an indictment.

A serious case of economic espionage has emerged, involving a former Google engineer, Linwei (Leon) Ding, who is accused of stealing valuable trade secrets from the tech giant. Ding, originally from China,

Linwei Ding, a former Google engineer, has been accused by US prosecutors of stealing AI trade secrets to benefit two Chinese companies. The Chinese national faces a 14-count indictment with charges of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets.

A Chinese national who has been indicted for allegedly stealing AI secrets from Google is facing additional charges, federal prosecutors said.

Prosecutors say Ding stole information about the hardware infrastructure and software platform that lets Google's supercomputing data centers train large AI models

US prosecutors dropped some serious charges on Tuesday, hitting former Google software engineer Linwei Ding with a 14-count indictment. They’re accusing him of stealing AI trade secrets to help out two Chinese companies he was allegedly working for on the sly.

A former Google software engineer stole artificial intelligence (AI) technology from the Silicon Valley tech giant, prosecutors said Tuesday. A federal grand jury returned an indictment Tuesday charging 38-year-old Linwei Ding,

According to US authorities, Linwei Ding joined Google in 2019 and was involved in covertly stealing information related to Alphabet’s AI projects and chip technology. He reportedly founded a startup

A Chinese software engineer who worked for Alphabet Inc.’s Google faces new charges of economic espionage by the US Justice Department for allegedly stealing trade secrets to boost China’s AI industry.