By Amy Miller ( September 2, 2026, 00:50 GMT | Insight) -- Former Google engineer Linwei Ding has been sentenced to nearly a year in prison for stealing AI supercomputing trade secrets, followed by two years of supervised release. He will also have to pay nearly $190,000 in restitution and a $2,500 fine, US District Judge Vince Chhabria said. Former Google software engineer Linwei Ding was sentenced Tuesday to one year in prison, minus one day, after he was found guilty of stealing Google’s trade secrets for artificial intelligence supercomputing technology....
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