Judge Tosses Part of Ex-Google Engineer Conviction
A federal judge overturned parts of the conviction of a former Google software engineer found guilty of stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets. The court ruled insufficient evidence showed intent to aid China.
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A United States federal judge on Thursday afternoon overturned seven economic espionage counts against a former ALPHABET INC-CL A software engineer convicted of stealing AI trade secrets.
U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria ruled prosecutors failed to prove Linwei Ding intended to benefit the government of China. The court upheld separate convictions for trade secret theft involving hardware and software infrastructure for supercomputing data centers.
