Ex-Google engineer found guilty of stealing AI secrets

TLDR

A federal jury in California convicted former Google software engineer Linwei Ding of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets tied to AI technology. Ding faces up to 100 years in prison for stealing over 2,000 pages of confidential information related to Google’s AI supercomputing data centers.

He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for each count of theft of trade secrets and up to 15 years for each count of economic espionage.