Former Google engineer Linwei Ding indicted for stealing AI trade secrets to benefit Chinese companies.
A former Google software engineer, Linwei Ding, has been indicted on charges of stealing AI trade secrets from Google, intending to benefit Chinese companies. Ding, a Chinese national, faces four counts of federal trade secret theft and was arrested in Newark, California. The stolen information included details about Google's supercomputing data center infrastructure and software platform that enable AI model training. Ding is accused of uploading hundreds of files into a personal Google Cloud account while having access to confidential information.
March 06, 2024
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