Former Google employee arrested for stealing AI trade secrets

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A former Google employee and Chinese national was charged with stealing trade secrets, the U.S. Justice Department said today. The defendant worked as a software engineer at Google, mostly working on machine learning and artificial intelligence technology. The former employee, 38-year-old Linwei Ding, allegedly stole over 500 files related to proprietary AI technology from Google. Ding was working for two companies based in China at the time, according to prosecutors. The stolen documents are about “the hardware infrastructure and software platform that allow Google’s supercomputing data centers to train large AI models through machine learning,” per the filings. “The Justice...