Google Engineer Steals AI Trade Secrets for Chinese Companies

U.S. authorities charged a former Google software engineer with stealing about 500 files of AI-related trade secrets—including tensor processor designs, GPU details, and cluster management specs—and allegedly uploading them to a personal cloud account between May 2022 and May 2023. The indictment claims he sought to use the stolen material to found and join China-based AI startups; investigators executed search warrants, seized devices, and arrested him. The case is framed as an example of insider-driven intellectual property theft with potential national-security implications.