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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 referred to as Leon Ding, 38, with 7 counts of financial espionage and 7 counts of theft of trade tricks in connection with an alleged plan to take from Google LLC (Google) exclusive details associated with AI innovation.
Ding was at first arraigned in March 2024 on four counts of theft of trade tricks. The superseding indictment returned today explains seven classifications of trade tricks taken by Ding and charges Ding with 7 counts of economic espionage and 7 counts of theft of trade tricks.
According to the superseding indictment, Google employed Ding as a software application engineer in 2019. Between around May 2022 and May 2023, Ding uploaded more than 1,000 unique files containing Google private details from Google's network to his personal Google Cloud account, consisting of the trade tricks declared in the superseding indictment.
While Ding was employed by Google, he covertly associated himself with 2 People's Republic of China (PRC)- based innovation business. 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 established his own technology company focused on AI and artificial intelligence in the PRC and was acting as the business's CEO.
The superseding indictment declares that Ding intended to benefit the PRC government by stealing trade secrets from Google. Ding supposedly took technology connecting to the hardware facilities and software platform that permits 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 permits the chips to communicate and asteroidsathome.net carry out jobs, and the software application that orchestrates thousands of chips into a supercomputer capable of training and carrying out cutting-edge AI workloads. The trade secrets likewise pertain to Google's custom-designed SmartNIC, a type of network interface card used to enhance Google's GPU, high performance, and cloud networking items.
As declared, Ding flowed a PowerPoint discussion to workers of his technology business pointing out PRC national policies encouraging the development of the domestic AI market. He likewise produced a PowerPoint presentation containing an application to a PRC skill program based in Shanghai. The superseding indictment explains how PRC-sponsored talent programs incentivize individuals participated in research and advancement outside the PRC to transfer that knowledge and research study to the PRC in exchange for salaries, research study funds, laboratory area, or other rewards. for the talent program specified that his company's item "will help China to have computing power facilities capabilities that are on par with the worldwide level."
If convicted, Ding faces a maximum charge of ten years in jail and 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 figure out any sentence after thinking about the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory aspects.
The FBI is investigating 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 coordinated through the Justice and Commerce Departments' Disruptive Technology Strike Force. The Disruptive Technology Strike Force is an interagency police strike force co-led by the Departments of Justice and Commerce designed to target illegal actors, protect supply chains, and avoid vital innovation from being obtained by authoritarian programs and hostile nation-states.
A superseding indictment is merely a claims. All defendants are presumed innocent till tested guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.