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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, likewise understood as Leon Ding, 38, with 7 counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade tricks in connection with an alleged strategy to steal from Google LLC (Google) exclusive details associated with AI technology.
Ding was at first 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 seven counts of and 7 counts of theft of trade tricks.
According to the superseding indictment, Google employed Ding as a software engineer in 2019. Between around May 2022 and May 2023, Ding submitted more than 1,000 distinct 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 utilized by Google, he covertly affiliated himself with two People's Republic of China (PRC)- based technology companies. 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 founded his own innovation company focused on AI and artificial intelligence in the PRC and was serving as the company's CEO.
The superseding indictment alleges that Ding planned to benefit the PRC government by taking trade tricks from Google. Ding apparently stole technology relating to the hardware facilities and software platform that enables Google's supercomputing data center to train and serve big 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 enables the chips to communicate and perform tasks, and the software application that orchestrates thousands of chips into a supercomputer efficient in training and carrying out advanced AI workloads. The trade secrets likewise pertain to Google's custom-made SmartNIC, a type of network interface card used to enhance Google's GPU, high efficiency, and cloud networking items.
As alleged, Ding flowed a PowerPoint discussion to workers of his technology business pointing out PRC nationwide policies encouraging the development of the domestic AI market. He also developed a PowerPoint presentation containing an application to a PRC talent program based in Shanghai. The superseding indictment explains how PRC-sponsored skill programs incentivize people taken part in research and development outside the PRC to transfer that knowledge and research to the PRC in exchange for incomes, research funds, lab space, or other rewards. Ding's application for the talent program stated that his business's product "will assist China to have calculating power facilities capabilities that are on par with the worldwide level."
If convicted, Ding faces an optimum penalty of ten years in jail and elearnportal.science as much as a $250,000 fine for 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 identify any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
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 collaborated 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 developed to target illicit actors, secure supply chains, and prevent crucial technology from being obtained by authoritarian routines and hostile nation-states.
A superseding indictment is simply a claims. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond an affordable doubt in a court of law.