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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, larsaluarna.se likewise called Leon Ding, 38, with seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets in connection with a supposed plan to steal from Google LLC (Google) exclusive details related to AI innovation.
Ding was initially arraigned in March 2024 on four counts of theft of trade tricks. The superseding indictment returned today explains 7 categories of trade secrets stolen by Ding and charges Ding with 7 counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade tricks.
According to the superseding indictment, Google worked with 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 personal 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 technology business. Around June 2022, Ding remained in conversations to be the Chief Technology Officer for an early-stage innovation business based in the PRC. By May 2023, Ding had actually established his own innovation business concentrated on AI and artificial intelligence in the PRC and was functioning as the business's CEO.
The alleges that Ding planned to benefit the PRC federal government by stealing trade tricks from Google. Ding allegedly took technology associating with the hardware facilities and software platform that permits Google's supercomputing data center to train and serve large AI designs. 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 interact and carry out jobs, and the software application that orchestrates thousands of chips into a supercomputer efficient in training and carrying out innovative AI work. The trade secrets also pertain to Google's custom-made SmartNIC, a kind of network interface card used to boost Google's GPU, high performance, and cloud networking items.
As alleged, Ding distributed a PowerPoint presentation to employees of his innovation company mentioning PRC national policies motivating the development of the domestic AI industry. He also developed a PowerPoint discussion containing an application to a PRC talent program based in Shanghai. The superseding indictment explains how PRC-sponsored skill programs incentivize individuals participated in research study and development outside the PRC to send that understanding and asteroidsathome.net research study to the PRC in exchange for incomes, research study 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 convicted, Ding faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail and as much as a $250,000 fine for vmeste-so-vsemi.ru 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 determine any sentence after considering 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 coordinated 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 created to target illegal actors, secure supply chains, and prevent critical innovation from being obtained by authoritarian programs and hostile nation-states.
A superseding indictment is merely a claims. All offenders are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a sensible doubt in a court of law.