Ex-Google engineer acquitted of economic espionage after US jury conviction
By Amy Miller ( August 20, 2026, 22:52 GMT | Insight) -- Former Google engineer Linwei Ding has been acquitted on seven counts of economic-espionage after US District Judge Vince Chhabria said prosecutors failed prove that he intended to benefit the Chinese government when he stole Google's trade secrets for artificial intelligence supercomputing technology. It was "the rare criminal trial where the government managed to obtain a conviction despite lacking sufficient evidence to prove an element beyond a reasonable doubt," Chhabria said.Former Google engineer Linwei Ding has been acquitted on seven counts of economic-espionage after a US judge said prosecutors failed prove that he intended to benefit the Chinese government when he stole Google's trade secrets for artificial intelligence supercomputing technology....
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