Daily Tech Roundup: Ex-Google Engineer Charged With Stealing AI Trade Secrets for Chinese Firms

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

A Chinese software engineer working for Alphabet Inc.’s Google was charged by the U.S. Justice Department with stealing trade secrets for developing artificial intelligence (AI) from the company’s supercomputing data centers. Linwei Ding, 38, a resident of Newark, California, was hired by Google in 2019. He has been charged with four counts of trade secrets theft, the Justice Department said in a statement Wednesday. “We allege the defendant stole artificial intelligence-related trade secrets from Google while secretly working for two companies based in China,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.