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Former Google Engineer Convicted of Stealing AI Secrets for China

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Feed Name: HackRead

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2026-01-30

Date Updated: 2026-04-22

Author: Deeba Ahmed

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Former Google engineer Linwei (Leon) Ding was convicted of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets after secretly transferring more than 2,000 pages of sensitive AI infrastructure documents — including custom TPU and SmartNIC designs and supercomputing data — from Google's network to private accounts to benefit Chinese companies and a startup; prosecutors and investigators highlighted significant national security and competitive-advantage risks stemming from the theft.

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