1 Superseding Indictment Charges Chinese National in Relation to Alleged Plan to Steal Proprietary AI Technology
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    Note: ura.cc View the superseding indictment here.

    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 secrets in connection with a supposed plan to take from Google LLC (Google) proprietary details related to 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 classifications of trade secrets taken by Ding and charges Ding with 7 counts of financial espionage and 7 counts of theft of trade tricks.

    According to the superseding indictment, Google hired Ding as a software application 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 connected himself with two People's Republic of China (PRC)- based innovation companies. Around June 2022, Ding remained in conversations to be the Chief Technology Officer for an early-stage technology business based in the PRC. By May 2023, Ding had actually established his own technology business focused on AI and artificial intelligence in the PRC and was serving as the business's CEO.

    The superseding indictment declares that Ding meant to benefit the PRC federal government by taking trade tricks from Google. Ding presumably took technology connecting to the hardware infrastructure and software platform that enables Google's supercomputing information center to train and serve big AI models. The trade secrets contain detailed details about the architecture and functionality 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 interact and perform tasks, and the software application that manages thousands of chips into a supercomputer capable of training and akropolistravel.com carrying out innovative AI work. The trade tricks also pertain to Google's custom-designed SmartNIC, a type of network user interface card utilized to improve Google's GPU, high performance, and cloud networking items.

    As alleged, Ding distributed a PowerPoint discussion to staff members of his innovation company pointing out PRC national policies encouraging the advancement of the domestic AI market. He likewise developed a PowerPoint discussion containing an application to a PRC skill program based in Shanghai. The superseding indictment explains how PRC-sponsored skill programs incentivize individuals participated in research and development outside the PRC to transmit that knowledge and research to the PRC in exchange for wages, research study funds, lab area, or other rewards. Ding's application for the skill program stated that his business's item "will help China to have calculating power facilities capabilities that are on par with the international level."

    If convicted, Ding faces an optimum charge of 10 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 determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory aspects.

    The FBI is examining the case.

    Assistant U.S. Attorneys Casey Boome and ura.cc 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 developed to target illegal stars, secure supply chains, and avoid vital innovation from being obtained by authoritarian programs and hostile nation-states.

    A superseding indictment is merely a claims. All offenders are presumed innocent until tested guilty beyond a sensible doubt in a law court.