India, Jan. 30 -- A former Google software engineer has been convicted on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets for stealing thousands of pages of confidential artificial intelligence (AI) technology for the benefit of China, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday.

The verdict was delivered after an 11-day trial before U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria.

The convicted individual, Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, 38, was originally indicted in March 2024. A superseding indictment filed in February 2025 detailed seven categories of trade secrets he allegedly stole and formally charged him with seven counts each of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets.

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