A former engineer at Google who quit the company and set up his own tech firm in China has been convicted of stealing documents from the American giant about its plans to make its own AI chips — while escaping more serious charges of commercial spying, thanks to an unusual last-minute reprieve.
A court document acquitting Ding of economic espionage counts, August 20, 2026. Credit: Courthouse News
Ding Linwei, whose trial the Wire China first reported on in February, was initially found g
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