Former Google engineer 起訴するd for stealing AI secrets to 援助（する） Chinese companies
By Karen Freifeld and Jonathan Stempel
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, March 6 (Reuters) - A former Google ソフトウェア engineer has been 起訴するd in California on 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s of stealing 貿易（する） secrets 関係のある to 人工的な 知能 from the Alphabet 部隊, to 利益 two Chinese companies he was 内密に working for.
Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, was 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d on Tuesday by a 連邦の 陪審／陪審員団 in San Francisco with four counts of 窃盗 of 貿易（する） secrets.
The 38-year-old Chinese 国家の was 逮捕（する）d on Wednesday morning at his home in Newark, California. A lawyer for him could not すぐに be identified.
Ding's 起訴，告発 was 明かすd a little over a year after the Biden 行政 created an interagency 破壊的な 科学（工学）技術 Strike 軍隊 to help stop 前進するd 科学（工学）技術 存在 acquired by countries such as 中国 and Russia, or 潜在的に 脅す 国家の 安全.
"The 司法（官） Department just will not 許容する the 窃盗 of our 貿易（する） secrets and 知能," U.S. 司法長官 Merrick Garland said at a 会議／協議会 in San Francisco.
によれば the 起訴，告発, Ding stole 詳細（に述べる）d （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） about the 金物類／武器類 組織／基盤／下部構造 and ソフトウェア 壇・綱領・公約 that lets Google's supercomputing data 中心s train large AI models through machine learning.
The stolen （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） 含むd 詳細（に述べる）s about 半導体素子s and systems, and ソフトウェア that helps 力／強力にする a スーパーコンピューター "有能な of 遂行する／発効させるing at the cutting 辛勝する／優位 of machine learning and AI 科学（工学）技術," the 起訴，告発 said.
Google designed some of the 恐らく stolen 半導体素子 詳細な計画s to 伸び（る） an 辛勝する／優位 over cloud 計算するing 競争相手s アマゾン.com and Microsoft, which design their own, and 減ずる its 依存 on 半導体素子s from Nvidia.
雇うd by Google in 2019, Ding 恐らく began his 窃盗s three years later, while he was 存在 法廷，裁判所d to become 長，指導者 科学（工学）技術 officer for an 早期に-行う／開催する／段階 Chinese tech company, and by May 2023 had uploaded more than 500 confidential とじ込み／提出するs.
The 起訴，告発 said Ding 設立するd his own 科学（工学）技術 company that month, and 循環させるd a 文書 to a 雑談（する） group that said "We have experience with Google's ten-thousand-card computational 力／強力にする 壇・綱領・公約; we just need to replicate and 昇格 it."
Google became 怪しげな of Ding in December 2023 and took away his laptop on Jan. 4, 2024, the day before Ding planned to 辞職する.
Jose Castaneda, a Google spokesperson, said: "We have strict 保護（する）／緊急輸入制限s to 妨げる the 窃盗 of our confidential 商業の （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） and 貿易（する） secrets. After an 調査, we 設立する that this 従業員 stole 非常に／多数の 文書s, and we quickly referred the 事例／患者 to 法律 施行."
Ding 直面するs up to 10 years in 刑務所，拘置所 and a $250,000 罰金 on each 犯罪の count. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Karen Freifeld in San Francisco and Jonathan Stempel in New York; 付加 報告（する）／憶測ing by Max Cherney and Luc Cohen in San Francisco; Editing by Chris やすりを削る人／削る機械s and Daniel Wallis)
