An engineer working at Google is accused of stealing the technology giant’s artificial intelligence-related trade secrets and selling them to Chinese companies.
Although it has not been the subject of much news in recent years, industrial espionage attempts continue every day. Finally Engineer Linwei Ding working at Googletechnologies developed by the company regarding artificial intelligence, China based companies He is accused of selling. It was stated that the stolen documents included information about chip software, hardware and data centers.
Ding aims to get ahead in the fight for artificial intelligence technology. Chinese It is stated that he works for based companies. It is stated that more than 500 confidential files containing Google’s artificial intelligence trade secrets were stolen. Most of these files are tensor processing unit (TPU) It is said to be related to chips. These units are used in training and operating artificial intelligence models such as Gemini.
More than 500 files were stolen
It is stated that the hardware and software features for the graphics processing units used in Google’s data center, the software designs used for the chips, and the designs for machine learning workloads in Google data centers are among the stolen documents. US Governmentaccuses Ding of uploading these files to a personal Google Cloud account between May 2022 and May 2023.
Ding allegedly copied the data he took from Google source files to the Apple Notes application on the MacBook laptop the company gave him, and to avoid detection by Google’s data loss and leak prevention systems. by converting to PDF allegedly uploaded. It was stated that there was other evidence regarding Ding’s relations with China. Ding, who is accused of four counts of trade secret theft, will face criminal charges for each charge if convicted. 10 years imprisonment And 250 thousand dollars money will be punished.
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