Ex-Google Engineer Sentenced to Nearly One Year in Prison for Stealing AI Trade Secrets

Former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, has been sentenced to nearly one year in federal prison after being convicted of stealing confidential technology linked to Google’s artificial intelligence infrastructure. A U.S. District Court in San Francisco sentenced Ding on September 1, 2026, to 12 months minus one day in prison,…