{"id":183083,"date":"2026-01-30T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/former-google-engineer-found-guilty-of-espionage-and-theft-of-ai-tech\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:25:09","slug":"former-google-engineer-found-guilty-of-espionage-and-theft-of-ai-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/former-google-engineer-found-guilty-of-espionage-and-theft-of-ai-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Google engineer found guilty of espionage and theft of AI tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/01\/30\/former-google-engineer-found-guilty-of-espionage-and-theft-of-ai-tech.html\">Former Google engineer found guilty of espionage and theft of AI tech<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/01\/30\/former-google-engineer-found-guilty-of-espionage-and-theft-of-ai-tech.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/01\/30\/former-google-engineer-found-guilty-of-espionage-and-theft-of-ai-tech.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-30 14:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnbc.com\">www.cnbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Federal jury convicted former Google software engineer Linwei Ding for stealing AI-related trade secrets to benefit China.<\/li>\n<li>Ding, also known as Leon Ding, found guilty on seven counts of economic espionage and seven of theft of trade secrets.<\/li>\n<li>The case marks the first conviction on AI-related economic espionage charges in the United States.<\/li>\n<li>Ding stole over 2,000 pages of sensitive Google AI information and uploaded them to his personal Google Cloud account.<\/li>\n<li>Important stolen information includes the details of Google\u2019s Tensor Processing Unit chips, graphics processing unit systems, and custom-built SmartNIC.<\/li>\n<li>Ding faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for each trade secrets theft count and 15 years for each count of economic espionage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Google engineer found guilty of espionage and theft of AI tech https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/01\/30\/former-google-engineer-found-guilty-of-espionage-and-theft-of-ai-tech.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108230973-17639991772025-11-24t154318z_1737158446_rc2lwq9j2uvq_rtrmadp_0_google-stocks.jpeg?v=1763999195&w=1920&h=1080","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183085,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183083\/revisions\/183085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}