Former Google Engineer Found Guilty of Economic Espionage and Theft of Confidential AI Technology

January 30, 2026

AI/MLFormer Google Engineer Found Guilty of Economic Espionage and Theft of Confidential AI Technology

A federal jury in San Francisco convicted former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, 38, on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets for stealing thousands of pages of confidential information containing Google’s trade secrets related to artificial intelligence technology for the benefit of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

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