Ex-Google Engineer Receives One-Year Sentence in AI Trade-Secret Case

Former Google engineer Linwei Ding was sentenced to one year in federal prison after a California court upheld his conviction for stealing Google trade secrets tied to AI infrastructure. The sentence, imposed by U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria on Sept. 1, also includes two years of supervised release, more than $189,000 in restitution and a $25,000 fine. Bloomberg Law reported that the judge considered the federal guideline range of zero to six months too lenient, while prosecutors had sought 70 months. KQED reported that Ding’s defense had requested three months of home confinement.