Google engineer convicted of stealing AI secrets for startup in China; FBI says: Betrayed both America and Google by …

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A federal jury in San Francisco this week convicted former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, 38, on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets for stealing thousands of pages of confidential information containing Google’s trade secrets related to artificial intelligence technology for the benefit of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The jury’s verdict follows an 11-day trial before U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria for the Northern District of California. “This conviction exposes a calculated breach of trust involving some of the most advanced AI technology in the world…