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Intellectual Property,
Technology

Mar. 8, 2024

Chinese national accused of stealing secrets from Google AI

Prosecutors said Linwei Ding moonlighted for one AI company in China while working at Google, then founded his own company.

A federal grand jury indicted a Chinese national suspected of stealing trade secrets from Google while working for China-based companies in the artificial intelligence industry.

Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, 38, was a software engineer at Google who lived in Newark, Alameda County. Prosecutors in the Northern District of California, which sought the indictment, said Ding moved proprietary and other confidential information from Google's network to his personal devices an...

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