Artificial intelligence is changing how companies snoop on each other

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Open this photo in gallery: THE GLOBE AND MAIL/ISTOCK GETTY IMAGES/The Globe and Mail In an apparently unprecedented power move, the intelligence chiefs from the so-called Five Eyes gathered on a stage at Stanford University in California last fall to fire a shot across the bow of China Inc. and the raging problem of intellectual property theft by state-linked firms. Citing a 1,300% increase in such investigations in the U.S. over the past several years, FBI Director Christopher Wray called the Chinese government the biggest threat to Western innovation. But the frothy industrial espionage narrative isn’t limited to questions of...