A federal jury recently found a former Google engineer guilty on several charges of trade secret theft and economic espionage, in a first-ever conviction of AI-related economic espionage charges. The ...

Google’s logo on a sign outside the company’s corporate campus in Mountain View, Calif., on June 7, 2026. (Margaret Attridge/Courthouse News) SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A federal judge Monday denied a ...

A federal grand jury has indicted a Google engineer, Linwei Ding, aka Leon Ding, for allegedly stealing trade secrets around Google’s AI chip software and hardware on March 5th, before he was arrested ...