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U.S. convicts ex-Google engineer for sending AI tech data to China

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STIX ID: report--bec7b2d7-dfe3-54b1-a558-3d0a602df10a

Feed Name: Bleeping Computer

Threat Score
85/100

Date Published: 2026-01-31

Date Updated: 2026-04-20

Author: Bill Toulas

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A U.S. federal jury convicted former Google engineer Linwei Ding for stealing more than 2,000 pages of confidential AI supercomputing materials—including TPU/GPU system designs, orchestration software, and SmartNIC details—and secretly sharing them with China-linked technology firms; prosecutors presented evidence he sought to help entities controlled by the PRC develop comparable AI infrastructure, resulting in convictions for economic espionage and trade secret theft.

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