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A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today charging Linwei Ding, also referred to as Leon Ding, 38, with 7 counts of financial espionage and seven counts of theft of trade tricks in connection with a supposed plan to take from Google LLC (Google) proprietary details associated with AI technology.
Ding was at first arraigned in March 2024 on four counts of theft of trade tricks. The superseding indictment returned today explains seven classifications of trade secrets stolen by Ding and charges Ding with 7 counts of financial espionage and 7 counts of theft of trade secrets.
According to the superseding indictment, Google worked with Ding as a software application engineer in 2019. Between around May 2022 and May 2023, Ding published more than 1,000 special files containing Google confidential details from Google's network to his personal Google Cloud account, consisting of the trade tricks alleged in the superseding indictment.
While Ding was used by Google, he covertly associated himself with 2 People's Republic of China (PRC)- based innovation companies. Around June 2022, Ding remained in conversations to be the Chief Technology Officer for an early-stage technology business based in the PRC. By May 2023, Ding had actually established his own technology company concentrated on AI and artificial intelligence in the PRC and was acting as the company's CEO.
The superseding indictment alleges that Ding intended to benefit the PRC government by stealing trade tricks from Google. Ding allegedly stole innovation relating to the hardware facilities and software platform that allows Google's supercomputing data center to train and serve large AI models. The trade secrets contain detailed details about the architecture and performance of Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips and systems and Google's Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) systems, the software application that enables the chips to interact and niaskywalk.com carry out tasks, and the software application that orchestrates countless chips into a supercomputer capable of training and performing cutting-edge AI work. The trade secrets also pertain to Google's custom-made SmartNIC, a kind of network interface card utilized to boost Google's GPU, high performance, and cloud networking items.
As declared, Ding flowed a PowerPoint presentation to staff members of his technology business pointing out PRC national policies motivating the advancement of the domestic AI market. He also created a PowerPoint presentation containing an application to a PRC talent program based in Shanghai. The superseding indictment explains how PRC-sponsored talent programs incentivize individuals taken part in research and advancement outside the PRC to send that understanding and research study to the PRC in exchange for incomes, research study funds, laboratory space, or other incentives. Ding's application for the talent program mentioned that his business's product "will assist China to have computing power infrastructure abilities that are on par with the worldwide level."
If convicted, Ding faces an optimum charge of 10 years in jail and as much as a $250,000 fine for each trade-secret count and 15 years in jail and $5,000,000 fine for each economic-espionage count. A federal district court judge will figure out any sentence after thinking about the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory elements.
The FBI is examining the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Casey Boome and Molly K. Priedeman for the Northern District of California and Trial Attorneys Stephen Marzen and Yifei Zheng of the National Security Division's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section are prosecuting the case.
Today's action was collaborated through the Justice and Commerce Departments' Disruptive Technology Strike Force. The Disruptive Technology Strike Force is an interagency police strike force co-led by the Departments of Justice and Commerce developed to target illegal stars, safeguard supply chains, and prevent important technology from being obtained by authoritarian regimes and hostile nation-states.
A superseding indictment is merely a claims. All offenders are presumed innocent up until tested guilty beyond an affordable doubt in a law court.
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