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Chinese chap charged with stealing Google’s AI datacenter secrets

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2024-03-07

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Simon Sharwood

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A former Google engineer, Linwei (Leon) Ding, is accused of exfiltrating approximately 500 confidential Google documents detailing GPU/TPU architecture, supporting software, and AI datacenter operations by copying files into Apple Notes, converting them to PDFs, and uploading them to a personal cloud account while secretly working for Chinese AI startups; he has been arrested and charged with theft of trade secrets.

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