US sanctions 5 Chinese entities over ex-Google engineer’s AI trade secrets theft
Firms include Shanghai Zhisuan Technology, founded by former Google software engineer Ding Linwei, MiraclePlus and three related entities
Ding was convicted of seven counts of trade secret theft in January. A federal judge subsequently acquitted him on seven additional counts of economic espionage, finding insufficient evidence that he knew or intended at the time of the thefts that his conduct would benefit the Chinese government. The theft convictions remain in place.
