U.S. CONVICTS EX-GOOGLE ENGINEER FOR SENDING AI TECH DATA TO CHINA

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Former Google software engineer Linwei Ding was convicted on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of trade secret theft for stealing over 2,000 pages of confidential AI materials between May 2022 and April 2023, including Google's AI supercomputing infrastructure, proprietary TPU/GPU systems, orchestration software, and SmartNIC networking technology. Ding is secretly affiliated with two China-based technology companies. He had a colleague scan his badge to falsely indicate his presence while traveling to China. The case highlights insider threat risks, as Ding stated his goal was to help China achieve computing infrastructure capabilities on par with international levels. Each conviction carries a maximum sentence of 10-15 years.