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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, also understood as Leon Ding, 38, with 7 counts of financial espionage and 7 counts of theft of trade tricks in connection with an alleged plan to steal from Google LLC (Google) proprietary details related to AI technology.
  
  Ding was at first arraigned in March 2024 on 4 counts of theft of trade secrets. The superseding indictment returned today explains 7 classifications of trade secrets taken 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 worked with Ding as a software application engineer in 2019. Between around May 2022 and May 2023, Ding published more than 1,000 unique files containing Google private details from Google's network to his personal Google Cloud account, consisting of the trade tricks declared in the superseding indictment.
  
  While Ding was employed by Google, he secretly associated himself with 2 People's Republic of China (PRC)- based technology business. Around June 2022, Ding remained in conversations 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 concentrated on AI and artificial intelligence in the PRC and was functioning as the company's CEO.
  
  The superseding indictment alleges that Ding intended to benefit the PRC federal government by taking trade tricks from Google. Ding apparently stole technology relating to the hardware facilities and software application platform that permits Google's supercomputing data center to train and serve big AI models. The trade secrets contain detailed details about the architecture and performance of Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips and systems and Google's Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) systems, the software application that allows the chips to communicate and carry out tasks, wolvesbaneuo.com and setiathome.berkeley.edu the software application that manages countless chips into a supercomputer capable of training and performing advanced AI workloads. The trade secrets likewise 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 products.
  
  As alleged, Ding circulated a PowerPoint discussion to employees of his technology company mentioning PRC national policies motivating the advancement of the domestic AI industry. He likewise produced a PowerPoint discussion containing an application to a PRC talent program based in Shanghai. The superseding indictment explains how PRC-sponsored skill programs incentivize people participated in research study and advancement outside the PRC to transfer that knowledge and research to the PRC in exchange for salaries, research funds, lab area, or other incentives. Ding's application for the talent program stated that his business's item "will assist China to have calculating power infrastructure abilities that are on par with the international level."
  
  If founded guilty, Ding deals with a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail and up to 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 identify any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory elements.
  
  The FBI is investigating 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 coordinated through the Justice and Commerce Departments' Disruptive Technology Strike Force. The Disruptive Technology Strike Force is an interagency law enforcement strike force co-led by the Departments of Justice and Commerce developed to target illegal stars, safeguard supply chains, and avoid crucial technology from being obtained by authoritarian programs and hostile nation-states.
  
  A superseding indictment is merely a claims. All defendants are presumed innocent up until tested guilty beyond a sensible doubt in a court of law.