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Ex-Google engineer who stole trade secrets sentenced to nearly 12 months

The judge said the guideline sentencing range of up to six months did not properly capture the severity of the crime.

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A San Francisco federal court convicted Linwei Ding, a former Google engineer, for stealing confidential information about the company’s artificial intelligence infrastructure and transferring it while developing links with technology companies in China. *** Linwei Ding was sentenced to 12 months less than one day in prison and two years of supervised release. Judge Vince Chhabria ordered to pay more than $198,000 in Google restitution and a $2,…

A former Google software engineer has been indicted in the US for leaking confidential information related to Google's artificial intelligence supercomputing data centers and giving it to Chinese startups.

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Courthouse News Service broke the news in Pasadena, United States on Tuesday, September 1, 2026.
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