Ex-Google Engineer Convicted of Economic Espionage for AI Secrets Theft
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Linwei Ding, a former Google engineer, was found guilty of stealing trade secrets related to artificial intelligence for the benefit of Chinese firms. The jury convicted him on 14 counts, including economic espionage and theft of trade secrets, following an 11-day trial in San Francisco. Ding was accused of taking confidential documents to aid a startup in China.
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