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Superseding Indictment Charges Chinese National in Relation to Alleged Plan to Steal Proprietary AI Technology


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    Superseding Indictment Charges Chinese National in Relation to Alleged Plan to Steal Proprietary AI Technology

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    A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today charging Linwei Ding, likewise referred to as Leon Ding, 38, with seven counts of financial espionage and 7 counts of theft of trade secrets in connection with an alleged strategy to steal from Google LLC (Google) proprietary details connected to AI innovation.

    Ding was at first arraigned in March 2024 on four counts of theft of trade secrets. The superseding indictment returned today explains 7 categories of trade secrets stolen by Ding and charges Ding with 7 counts of economic espionage and 7 counts of theft of trade tricks.

    According to the superseding indictment, Google hired Ding as a software application engineer in 2019. Between approximately May 2022 and May 2023, Ding uploaded more than 1,000 special files containing Google personal details from Google's network to his individual Google Cloud account, including the trade secrets declared in the superseding indictment.

    While Ding was employed by Google, he secretly connected himself with two People's Republic of China (PRC)- based innovation companies. Around June 2022, Ding remained in discussions to be the Chief Technology Officer for an early-stage innovation business based in the PRC. By May 2023, Ding had founded his own technology company concentrated on AI and artificial intelligence in the PRC and was serving as the business's CEO.

    The superseding indictment alleges that Ding intended to benefit the PRC government by taking trade tricks from Google. Ding apparently stole innovation associating with the hardware infrastructure and software platform that enables Google's supercomputing data center to train and serve big 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 allows the chips to communicate and execute jobs, and the software application that manages countless chips into a supercomputer efficient in training and executing advanced AI work. The trade tricks likewise pertain to Google's custom-made SmartNIC, a type of network interface card used to enhance Google's GPU, high efficiency, and cloud networking items.

    As declared, Ding flowed a PowerPoint discussion to employees of his technology business citing PRC national policies encouraging the development of the domestic AI market. He also produced a PowerPoint discussion containing an application to a PRC talent program based in Shanghai. The superseding indictment explains how PRC-sponsored talent programs incentivize individuals engaged in research and advancement outside the PRC to send that understanding and research study to the PRC in exchange for salaries, research funds, lab space, or other incentives. Ding's application for the talent program stated that his business's item "will help China to have computing power facilities abilities that are on par with the worldwide level."

    If founded guilty, with an optimum penalty of ten years in jail and up to 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 aspects.

    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 law enforcement strike force co-led by the Departments of Justice and Commerce designed to target illicit stars, protect supply chains, and photorum.eclat-mauve.fr prevent important innovation from being obtained by authoritarian routines and hostile nation-states.

    A superseding indictment is merely a claims. All offenders are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.