US cranks up espionage charges against ex-Googler accused of trade secrets heist
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A Google software engineer is accused of stealing more than a thousand files detailing proprietary AI and hardware designs (TPU, GPU, SmartNIC) between 2022–2023, allegedly exfiltrating them by copying source content into Apple Notes, saving as PDFs, and transferring to personal cloud accounts before sharing with Chinese startups; prosecutors filed a superseding indictment with multiple counts of theft of trade secrets and economic espionage, exposing significant legal and national-security implications.
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