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Former Google Engineer Sentenced for Stealing AI Trade Secrets
A former Google engineer has been sentenced to nearly a year in prison for stealing AI supercomputing trade secrets. Linwei Ding, a former software engineer at Google, was found guilty of stealing the company's trade secrets and will serve one year minus one day in prison. In addition to his prison sentence, Ding will also have to pay $190,000 in restitution and a $2,500 fine.
The sentencing comes after a guilty verdict was handed down in August 2026. Judge Vince Chhabria presided over the case and delivered the sentence on September 1, 2026. The exact details of what Ding stole are not specified in the source, but it is clear that his actions were serious enough to warrant significant punishment.