A federal jury recently found a former Google engineer guilty on several charges of trade secret theft and economic espionage, in a first-ever conviction of AI-related economic espionage charges. The ...

The theft of Google’s most guarded AI secrets just cost one engineer his freedom-and exposed how vulnerable the AI infrastructure powering modern devices really is. A federal jury convicted former ...

On January 29, 2026, a federal jury in San Francisco convicted former Google software engineer Linwei Ding on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets. He was ...

BAY AREA, CA — Three Silicon Valley engineers — including two former Google employees— are scheduled to appear in court Friday following a federal grand jury indictment charging them with conspiring ...