Chinese Engineer Charged with Stealing Google's AI Trade Secrets
• Chinese national and former Google engineer Linwei Ding arrested and charged with stealing over 500 confidential AI trade secret files from Google
• Ding was secretly working with two China-based tech companies at the same time he was employed by Google
• Files contained sensitive information on hardware and software that powers Google’s AI and machine learning
• DOJ says theft of AI technology presents economic and national security threats if acquired by adversaries
• Case latest example of China’s campaign to steal American trade secrets and intellectual property to supplant U.S. as global leader