Although there hasn’t been much news about it in recent years, industrial espionage attempts continue every day. Finally Engineer Linwei Ding works at Googletechnologies developed by the company related to artificial intelligence, China-based companies He is accused of selling. It was stated that the stolen documents contained information about chip software, hardware and data centers.

Ding wants to get ahead in the battle for artificial intelligence technology. Chinese It is stated that he works for established companies. It is claimed that more than 500 confidential files containing Google’s artificial intelligence trade secrets have been stolen. Most of these files are tensor processing unit (TPU) It is said to be related to potato chips. These units are used in training and operating artificial intelligence models such as Gemini.

More than 500 files have been stolen

It is claimed that the hardware and software functions for the graphics processing units used in Google’s data center, the software designs used for the chips, and the designs for machine learning workloads in Google’s data centers are among the stolen documents. The United States Governmentaccuses Ding of uploading these files to a personal Google Cloud account between May 2022 and May 2023.

Ding allegedly copied the data he extracted from Google’s source files into the Apple Notes application on the MacBook laptop the company gave him, and to avoid detection by Google’s data loss and leak prevention systems. by converting to PDF supposedly uploaded. It was stated that there was other evidence regarding Ding’s relations with China. Ding, who is charged with four counts of trade secret theft, will face criminal charges on each count if convicted. 10 years in prison And 250 thousand dollars money will be punished.