"Ex-Google AI Engineer Indicted for Stealing Trade Secrets for Chinese Firm"
Former Google AI engineer, Leon Ding, has been arrested and charged with stealing trade secrets related to advanced technologies for the purpose of setting up his own company in China. The Justice Department sees this as a warning against illicit technology transfer to China, amid a technological arms race between the U.S. and China. If convicted, Ding faces up to 10 years in prison and $1 million in fines. The stolen information includes chip architecture and software design specifications for supercomputing centers. The investigation was carried out by the Justice and Commerce departments’ Disruptive Technology Strike Force, aimed at securing U.S. technologies from being acquired by authoritarian regimes and hostile nation-states.
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