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Chinese engineer accused of stealing Google's GPU and TPU secrets, transferring them to China-based startups
Former Googler arrested in California faces up to 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine.
The indictment alleges four counts of trade secrets theft, covering areas such as TPU development, GPU deployments and specs, software design for machine learning, and more. Stealing secret documents is bad enough, but during his employment at Google, investigations reveal that Ding also started working as the CTO of a Beijing AI startup called Rongshu. "The Justice Department will not tolerate the theft of artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies that could put our national security at risk,” said Attorney General Garland in a press release on Wednesday.
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