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# US Sentences Ex\-Google Engineer to 1 Year in First AI Espionage Case

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**Published:** 2026-09-02T02:57:49.000Z
**Category:** Legal
**Topics:** google, safety, regulation

## Summary

A San Francisco federal court handed down a prison term to former Google software engineer Linwei Ding for stealing trade secrets related to artificial intelli…

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