TECH - Google Engineer Indicted For Allegedly Stealing AI Trade Secrets For China Could Spend Decades In Prison If Convicted | Benzinga
An Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL)-owned Google engineer, Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to the tech giant’s AI chip software and hardware.
What Happened: Ding is accused of stealing over 500 confidential files containing AI trade secrets from Google.
These files are said to include software designs for Google’s tensor processing unit (TPU) chips, hardware and software specifications for GPUs used in Google’s data center, and designs for Google’s machine learning workloads in data centers.
The indictment was made on March 5 and Ding was arrested on Wednesday in Newark, California, reported The Verge.