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


A CHINESE software engineer working for Alphabet’s Google was charged by the US Justice Department with stealing trade secrets for developing artificial intelligence (AI) from the company’s supercomputing data centres. Read more at The Business Times.

A CHINESE software engineer working for Alphabet’s Google was charged by the US Justice Department with stealing trade secrets for developing artificial intelligence (AI) from the company’s supercomputing data centres. Ding Linwei, 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 on Wednesday (Mar 6). The technology Ding allegedly stole “involves the building blocks of Google’s advanced supercomputing data centres, which are designed to support machine learning workloads used to train and host large AI models”, according to the Justice Department release.

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