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Fate of Google engineer accused of stealing trade secrets in US jurors' hands

By Amy Miller ( January 29, 2026, 01:51 GMT | Insight) -- Former Google engineer Linwei Ding isn't guilty of stealing trade secrets to build artificial intelligence supercomputers and data centers in China because he could not and did not intend to replicate Google’s technology, his defense attorney told a jury in closing arguments. But US prosecutors countered that Ding is a cheat and a liar who founded an AI startup in China after stealing more than 100 trade secrets from Google and telling investors there that he was one of only 10 people in the world who could replicate Google’s AI supercomputing products.Former Google engineer Linwei Ding isn't guilty of stealing trade secrets to build artificial intelligence supercomputers and data centers in China because he couldn't and did not intend to replicate Google’s technology, his defense attorney told a jury in closing arguments Wednesday....

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