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Former Google engineer accused of stealing AI secrets faces US trial in January

By Mike Swift and Amy Miller ( December 24, 2025, 14:03 GMT | Comment) -- Former Google engineer LInwei Ding will face a federal jury in San Francisco in early January, accused of trade secret theft and economic espionage for allegedly stealing Google's AI secrets for China, in a high-profile prosecution announced personally by former US Attorney General Merrick Garland. In advance of the trial, however, US District Judge Vince Chhabria is voicing reservations about whether a key expert witness in Ding's defense is qualified to testify, and the "unsettling" constitutional questions Chhabria faces in deciding whether the expert can testify.With the trial of a former Google engineer accused of stealing AI secrets for China just two weeks away, Linwei Ding’s defense has a problem: the US judge presiding over Ding’s trial doesn’t believe a key defense expert “knows what he’s talking about.”...

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