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Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Google software engineer accused of stealing AI technology for China
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A former Google software engineer stole artificial intelligence (AI) technology from the Silicon Valley tech giant, prosecutors said Tuesday. A federal grand jury returned an indictment Tuesday charging 38-year-old Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, with seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets. Google, which is headquartered in Mountain View, hired Ding as a software engineer in 2019. Between 2022 and 2023, Ding uploaded more than 1,000 files containing confidential information from Google's network to his personal Google Cloud account, according to the indictment. 'While Ding was employed by Google, he secretly affiliated himself with two People's Republic of China (PRC)-based technology companies,' the U.S. Attorney's Office Northern District of California wrote. By mid-2023, Ding had founded his own technology company focused on AI and machine learning in China and was acting as the company's CEO, according to investigators. 'Ding intended to benefit the PRC government by stealing trade secrets from Google,' prosecutors wrote. Salesforce cutting 1,000 jobs, hiring salespeople for AI China sponsors talent programs incentivized people to engaged in research and development outside the PRC to transmit that knowledge and research back in exchange for salaries, research funds, lab space, or other incentives, according to federal investigators. Ding is accused of stealing technology from Google relating to: The hardware infrastructure and software platform that allows Google's supercomputing data center to train and serve large AI models. Trade secrets about the architecture and functionality of Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips and systems and Google's Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) systems, the software that allows the chips to communicate and execute tasks, and the software that orchestrates thousands of chips into a supercomputer capable of training and executing cutting-edge AI workloads. Trade secrets on Google's custom-designed SmartNIC, a type of network interface card used to enhance Google's GPU, high performance, and cloud networking products. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Casey Boome and Molly Priedeman, as well as trial attorneys Stephen Marzen and Yifei Zheng of the National Security Division's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Bloomberg
05-02-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Ex-Google Engineer Charged With Espionage to Boost AI in China
A Chinese software engineer who worked for Alphabet Inc. 's Google faces new charges of economic espionage by the US Justice Department for allegedly stealing trade secrets to boost China's AI industry. Linwei Ding, who was indicted in March, now faces seven counts of economic espionage along with seven counts of theft of trade secrets under a revised indictment announced Tuesday.
Reuters
05-02-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Jonathan Stempel
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US consumer bureau won't defend Biden-era rules in court after chief was fired Businesscategory ·February 3, 2025 A proposed class action accusing Microsoft's LinkedIn of violating the privacy of millions of Premium customers by disclosing their private messages to train generative artificial intelligence models has been dismissed. LinkedIn lawsuit over use of customer data for AI models is dismissed Legalcategory ·January 31, 2025 A federal appeals court on Thursday restored a U.S. agency rule restricting lobster and Jonah crab fishing off the Massachusetts coast to protect endangered whales, rejecting a claim that the agency did not deserve deference under a recent landmark Supreme Court case. Massachusetts lobster fishing limits to protect whales restored by appeals court January 30, 2025 Netspend, a provider of reloadable debit and payroll cards, will pay about $1.1 million to settle New York state accusations it illegally charged low-income customers exorbitant interest rates on paycheck advances and let debt collectors seize their funds. Netspend to compensate overcharged customers in New York settlement Businesscategory ·January 30, 2025 A federal judge ordered an end to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's 16-year-old lawsuit over Allen Stanford's $7.2 billion Ponzi scheme, directing the financier and two former colleagues to pay sums that will go largely uncollected. US SEC case over massive Allen Stanford fraud ends, judge orders fines Legalcategory ·January 30, 2025 was sued on Wednesday by consumers who accused the retailing giant of secretly tracking their movements through their cellphones, and selling data it collects. 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Novo Nordisk to cap insulin prices in Minnesota settlement; joins Lilly, Sanofi January 27, 2025 Elon Musk asked a federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action by voters who said the world's richest person defrauded them into signing a petition to support the U.S. Constitution for a chance to win his $1 million-a-day giveaway. Elon Musk says $1 million election giveaway wasn't an illegal lottery Legalcategory ·January 27, 2025 Ben & Jerry's wants a court order freeing the board to continue oversight of its social mission, and requiring Unilever to honor its commitment to make $25 million of payments to groups chosen by the ice cream company. Ben & Jerry's accuses Unilever of muzzling it because of Trump Legalcategory ·January 27, 2025 Pfizer will pay $59.7 million to resolve charges that a company it acquired defrauded Medicare and other healthcare programs by paying kickbacks so doctors would prescribe the migraine drug Nurtec ODT, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday. Pfizer to pay $59.7 million over kickbacks for migraine drug Legalcategory ·January 24, 2025 The founder of GameOn, a San Francisco artificial intelligence startup, has been indicted for running a "brazen and wide-ranging" six-year fraud that cost the company and investors more than $60 million, federal prosecutors said on Thursday. Founder of AI chatbot startup GameOn indicted for fraud in San Francisco Legalcategory ·January 23, 2025 PayPal will pay a $2 million civil fine over cybersecurity failures that led to the exposure of customers' Social Security numbers in late 2022, New York state's Department of Financial Services said on Thursday. PayPal fined by New York for cybersecurity failures Technologycategory ·January 23, 2025 Microsoft's LinkedIn has been sued by Premium customers who said the business-focused social media platform disclosed their private messages to third parties without permission to train generative artificial intelligence models. 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CBS News
05-02-2025
- Business
- CBS News
Chinese national accused of stealing AI secrets from Google facing new charges
A Chinese national who has been indicted for allegedly stealing AI secrets from Google is facing additional charges, federal prosecutors said. The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that a grand jury indicted Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets. Ding, a 38-year-old software engineer who had lived in Newark, was previously indicted on four counts of theft of trade secrets last March after he allegedly stole 500 confidential files from Google. He was hired by the company in 2019, prosecutors said. According to the superseding indictment, Ding allegedly uploaded more than 1,000 files containing confidential company information into his personal Google Cloud account from May 2022 through May 2023. Prosecutors said the trade secrets pertained to the company's hardware infrastructure and software platform that allows Google's supercomputing data center to train and serve large AI models. "The trade secrets contain detailed information about the architecture and functionality of TPU chips and systems and GPU systems, the software that allowed the chips to communicate and execute tasks, and the software that orchestrated thousands of chips into a supercomputer capable of training and executing cutting-edge AI workloads. The trade secrets also pertain to Google's custom designed SmartNIC and related software," the indictment said. During that time, Ding was offered the position of chief technology officer of a Chinese-based tech company. Between Oct. 2022 and Mar. 2023, Ding was in China seeking to raise capital for the company, the indictment said. In May 2023, prosecutors said Ding had founded a second tech company in China focused on AI and machine learning and was acting as its CEO. The indictment also alleges that he uploaded more files from Google in Dec. 2023, which the company detected. Prosecutors said Ding did not tell Google that he had previously uploaded 1,000 files or his affiliations with the Chinese-based companies. Google uncovered the uploads after finding out that Ding had presented himself as CEO of one of the companies during an investor conference in Beijing, the indictment said. The FBI executed a search warrant at his home in Jan. 2024 and Ding was arrested two months later. According to prosecutors, Ding faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine for each trade secret count and 15 years in prison and a $5 million fine for each count of economic espionage.
Voice of America
05-02-2025
- Business
- Voice of America
Former Google engineer faces new US charges he stole AI secrets for Chinese companies
U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled an expanded 14-count indictment accusing former Google software engineer Linwei Ding of stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets to benefit two Chinese companies he was secretly working for. Ding, 38, a Chinese national, was charged by a federal grand jury in San Francisco with seven counts each of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets. Each economic espionage charge carries a maximum 15-year prison term and $5 million fine, while each trade secrets charge carries a maximum 10-year term and $250,000 fine. The defendant, also known as Leon Ding, was indicted last March on four counts of theft of trade secrets. He is free on bond. His lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Ding's case was coordinated through an interagency Disruptive Technology Strike Force created in 2023 by the Biden administration. The initiative was designed to help stop advanced technology from being acquired by countries such as China and Russia or potentially threatening national security. Prosecutors said Ding stole information about the hardware infrastructure and software platform that lets Google's supercomputing data centers train large AI models. Some of the allegedly stolen chip blueprints were meant to give Google an edge over cloud computing rivals Amazon and Microsoft, which design their own, and reduce Google's reliance on chips from Nvidia. Prosecutors said Ding joined Google in May 2019 and began his thefts three years later when he was being courted to join an early-stage Chinese technology company. Ding allegedly uploaded more than 1,000 confidential files by May 2023 and later circulated a PowerPoint presentation to employees of a China startup he founded, saying that country's policies encouraged development of a domestic AI industry. Google was not charged and has said it cooperated with law enforcement. According to court records describing a December 18 hearing, prosecutors and defense lawyers discussed a "potential resolution" to Ding's case, "but anticipate the matter proceeding to trial." The case is U.S. v. Ding, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 24-cr-00141.
