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Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI secrets


Linwei Ding is also accused of secretly working for Chinese competitors.

The information he is accused of taking relates to the infrastructure of Google's supercomputing data centres, which are used to host and train large AI models. "The Justice Department will not tolerate the theft of artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies that could put our national security at risk," Mr Garland said. FBI Director Christopher Wray said Mr Ding's alleged actions "are the latest illustration of the lengths" companies in China will go to, "to steal American innovation".

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