A California federal jury on Thursday delivered a swift and sweeping verdict in the Ex-Google Engineer AI Secrets theft suit, finding former Google software engineer Linwei Ding guilty on all 14 criminal counts tied to the theft of artificial intelligence trade secrets and economic espionage. Jury Convicts on All CountsDing, 39, was convicted of seven counts of trade secret theft and seven counts of economic espionage, matching every charge brought by federal prosecutors. Authorities alleged that the stolen information was intended to benefit Ding personally and advance technology interests in China. The cache allegedly included 105 trade secrets tied to Google’s supercomputing data centers—systems essential for training and operating large language models. The information spanned highly sensitive areas, from custom-designed chips to cloud networking software architecture, forming what prosecutors described as a technical roadmap competitors could exploit.