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US jurors convict Google engineer based on data taken, the way it was stolen

By Amy Miller ( January 29, 2026, 23:32 GMT | Comment) -- The conviction of a former Google engineer who stole trade secrets for artificial intelligence supercomputers to help himself and the Chinese government was based on the kind of information he took and his method for acquiring it, jurors told MLex. The 12-member jury delivered its verdict after listening to 11 days of complex, detailed technical testimony about how Ding stole more than a hundred trade secrets related to Google’s AI supercomputing technology while falsely claiming in China that he could replicate his US employer’s proprietary tools.The conviction of a former Google engineer who stole trade secrets for artificial intelligence supercomputers to help himself and the Chinese government was based on the kind of information he took and his method for acquiring it, jurors told MLex Thursday....

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