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AI Trade Secret Conviction Highlights Espionage Risks

By Peter Toren ( February 25, 2026, 6:59 PM EST) -- On Jan. 30, a federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California convicted Linwei Ding, a former Google engineer, on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets under the Economic Espionage Act.[1] The charges stemmed from Ding's theft of Google's trade secrets related to artificial intelligence technology for the benefit of China....

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