{"id":183179,"date":"2026-01-30T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/ex-google-engineer-convicted-of-stealing-ai-trade-secrets-for-china\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T06:30:11","slug":"ex-google-engineer-convicted-of-stealing-ai-trade-secrets-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/ex-google-engineer-convicted-of-stealing-ai-trade-secrets-for-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Google engineer convicted of stealing AI trade secrets for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-01-30\/ex-google-engineer-convicted-of-stealing-ai-trade-secrets-for-china\">Ex-Google engineer convicted of stealing AI trade secrets for China<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-01-30\/ex-google-engineer-convicted-of-stealing-ai-trade-secrets-for-china\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-01-30\/ex-google-engineer-convicted-of-stealing-ai-trade-secrets-for-china<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-30 21:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.latimes.com\">www.latimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Former Google software engineer Linwei Ding convicted of theft of AI trade secrets for the benefit of China.<\/li>\n<li>Ding found guilty of seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets following an 11-day trial.<\/li>\n<li>This marks the U.S. Department of Justice&#8217;s first conviction on AI-related economic espionage charges.<\/li>\n<li>Ding stole over 2,000 pages of confidential AI trade secrets from Google and uploaded them to his personal cloud account.<\/li>\n<li>While stealing trade secrets, Ding worked secretly with two Beijing-based technology companies with plans to contribute to China\u2019s economic growth by building an AI supercomputer based on stolen Google technology.<\/li>\n<li>Ding could face 15 years in prison for each count of economic espionage and 10 years for each count of trade secret theft after his status conference on Tuesday.<\/li>\n<li>The verdict underscores the FBI&#8217;s commitment to safeguarding American innovation and national security.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Google engineer convicted of stealing AI trade secrets for China https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-01-30\/ex-google-engineer-convicted-of-stealing-ai-trade-secrets-for-china Publish Date: 2026-01-30 21:31:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/f20ce6c\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5180x2720+0+445\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fbd%2Ffc%2F0a4e5ba445078bbd3c9eb378eb95%2Fgettyimages-2226698932.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183179","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\/183179"}],"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=183179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183181,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183179\/revisions\/183181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}