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Morning Edition · Thursday, September 3, 2026Published at 2:26 AM EDT · New York
Former Google Engineer Sentenced to Just Under a Year for Stealing AI Chip Infrastructure Secrets
Judge Vince Chhabria vacated all seven economic-espionage convictions before sentencing, ruling prosecutors never proved Linwei Ding intended to benefit the Chinese state.
A federal court in San Francisco sentenced Linwei Ding, a former Google engineer, to 12 months minus one day in prison followed by two years of supervised release, with roughly $190,000 in restitution and a $2,500 fine. A January jury had c…
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