A federal grand jury charged a former Google engineer with stealing artificial intelligence-related trade secrets with the intent of providing them to China.
The San Francisco-based jury indicted Linwei Ding, aka Leon Ding, on Wednesday on four charges of theft of trade secrets. The indictment, which was returned on Tuesday and unsealed Wednesday, stated that Ding transferred Google trade secrets and other confidential information from Google’s networks to a personal account. According to the Department of Justice, Ding also had secret affiliations with Chinese companies that created AI products.
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