Former Google engineer's economic espionage conviction debated again by US judge
By Amy Miller ( June 17, 2026, 01:14 GMT | Insight) -- A federal judge in San Francisco continued to debate whether to throw out the economic espionage conviction of a former Google engineer convicted earlier this year of stealing advanced artificial intelligence trade secrets from the tech giant in 2023 to benefit China. US prosecutors argued jurors could infer from the broader record that Linwei Ding intended to steal the trade secrets to benefit the Chinese government, while the defense countered that the government never made that argument at trial.A federal judge continued to hear arguments Tuesday about whether he should throw out the economic espionage conviction of a former Google engineer convicted earlier this year of stealing advanced artificial intelligence trade secrets from the tech giant in 2023 to benefit China....
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