Ex-Google Engineer's Trade Secret Theft Case Goes To Jury

By Bonnie Eslinger ( January 28, 2026, 10:02 PM EST) -- Software engineer Linwei Ding "stole, cheated and lied" when he worked at Google LLC, taking its artificial intelligence trade secrets to help himself and China, a California federal prosecutor told jurors Tuesday, urging them to convict him of economic espionage and trade secret theft....

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