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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 economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets in connection with an alleged strategy to take from Google LLC (Google) exclusive details related to AI technology.
Ding was at first arraigned in March 2024 on 4 counts of theft of trade tricks. The superseding indictment returned today explains 7 classifications of trade secrets stolen by Ding and charges Ding with 7 counts of economic espionage and seven 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 submitted more than 1,000 distinct files containing Google personal details from Google's network to his personal Google Cloud account, consisting of the trade tricks alleged in the superseding indictment.
While Ding was used by Google, he covertly associated himself with 2 People's Republic of China (PRC)- based technology business. Around June 2022, Ding remained in discussions to be the Chief Technology Officer for an early-stage technology company based in the PRC. By May 2023, Ding had actually established his own innovation company focused on AI and artificial intelligence in the PRC and was acting as the business's CEO.
The superseding indictment alleges that Ding intended to benefit the PRC government by stealing trade secrets from Google. Ding allegedly took technology connecting to the hardware facilities and software platform that allows Google's supercomputing data center to train and serve big AI designs. The trade secrets contain detailed details about the architecture and sitiosecuador.com functionality of Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips and systems and Google's Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) systems, the software that allows the chips to interact and carry out jobs, and the software that manages countless chips into a supercomputer efficient in training and performing innovative AI workloads. The trade secrets likewise pertain to Google's custom-made SmartNIC, a kind of network user interface card utilized to boost Google's GPU, high efficiency, and cloud networking items.
As declared, Ding flowed a PowerPoint presentation to workers of his technology company mentioning PRC national policies motivating the development 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 talent programs incentivize people engaged in research study and development outside the PRC to transmit that understanding and research to the PRC in exchange for incomes, research funds, laboratory space, or other rewards. Ding's application for the skill program specified that his company's item "will assist China to have computing power infrastructure capabilities that are on par with the global level."
If founded guilty, Ding faces a maximum penalty 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 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 police strike force co-led by the Departments of Justice and Commerce designed to target illicit stars, secure supply chains, and avoid important technology from being obtained by authoritarian routines and hostile nation-states.
A superseding indictment is merely a claims. All accuseds are presumed innocent till proven guilty beyond an affordable doubt in a law court.