Ex-Google engineer charged with AI tech theft for Chinese firms

The US Justice Department says a former software  engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence technology from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China. Ding was arrested in Newark, California, on four counts of federal trade secret theft. — AP

A Chinese software engineer working for Alphabet Inc’s Google was charged by the US Justice Department with stealing trade secrets for developing artificial intelligence from the company’s supercomputing data centres.

Linwei Ding, 38, a Chinese national and resident of Newark, California, who was hired by Google in 2019, has been charged with four counts of trade secrets theft, the Justice Department said in a news release Wednesday.