Ex-Google Engineer Stole AI Secrets To Help China, Jury Told

By Bonnie Eslinger ( January 12, 2026, 9:08 PM EST) -- Driven by greed, ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding stole thousands of confidential documents from the tech giant, launched his own startup and then offered Google's artificial intelligence trade secrets to China, a federal prosecutor told a California jury Monday at the start of Ding's high-profile economic espionage trial....

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