A federal grand jury has indicted former Google LLC engineer Linwei Ding, aka Leon Ding, for allegedly stealing trade secrets from the search giant. The Justice Department unsealed the indictment ...

Linwei Ding, who is also known as Leon Ding, was charged with four counts of theft of trade secrets. Ding, 38, a resident of Newark, Calif., was arrested there Wednesday and the indictment unsealed.

Officials say Linwei Ding, who was arrested Wednesday, shared the information with Chinese companies. The DOJ also said he ran a Chinese-based startup while employed as a software engineer at Google.

Ding is accused of stealing technology from Google relating to: The hardware infrastructure and software platform that allows Google’s supercomputing data center to train and serve large AI models.

Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, was arrested Thursday morning by the FBI at his Newark, Calif., home, as a federal indictment was unsealed charging the 38-year-old with four counts of trade ...

Linwei Ding, 38, known to colleagues as Leon Ding, is accused of stealing and transmitting back to Chinese companies more than a thousand files related to Google's proprietary AI work between 2022 ...

An Alphabet Inc. GOOG 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 ...

Lawyers for Ding did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Ding's case was coordinated through an interagency Disruptive Technology Strike Force created in 2023 by the Biden administration.

Linwei Ding, who also goes by Leon Ding, is charged with four counts of theft of trade secrets. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison for each count.

Linwei Ding, who also goes by Leon Ding, is charged with four counts of theft of trade secrets. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison for each count.

A Google employee was charged Tuesday with stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the tech giant while secretly working with two Chinese-based companies in the AI industry.

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — A Google employee was charged Tuesday with stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the tech giant while secretly working with two ...