By Emma Bussey
Publication Date: 2026-01-30 00:06:00
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A federal jury found a former Google engineer guilty of stealing artificial intelligence (AI) trade secrets and spying for Chinese tech companies, ending a high-profile Silicon Valley trial.
As detailed in court documents obtained by FOX Business, Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, was convicted Thursday on all counts after an 11-day trial in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
Prosecutors alleged Ding secretly stole proprietary AI-related data from Google while working with companies linked to the People’s Republic of China.
Ding, 38, was hired by Google in 2019 as a software engineer working on the company’s supercomputing data centers that are involved in training and deploying advanced AI models.
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