DAILYCALLER (Ireland Owens) - Google Files Lawsuit Against Chinese ‘Organized Cybercrime Operation’
'Criminals increasingly use AI'
JUSTTHENEWS (Kevin Killough) - Google engineer took home $1.2 million on Polymarket using inside information, prosecutors say
Under the username "AlphaRaccon," Spagnulo earned $1.2 million from correctly betting that D4vd, the singer accused of killing a teenage girl, would be Google's most-searched person in 2025, according to the complaint.
DAILYCALLER (Philip Lenczycki) - EXCLUSIVE: California Treasurer Has Long History Hobnobbing With Chinese Gov’t And CCP Intel Officials
'Elite capture'
NEWSCATS (Diana Zapata) - Three Silicon Valley Engineers Indicted on Charges of Stealing Google Trade Secrets and Transferring Them to Iran
Published February 22, 2025 A federal grand jury has indicted three engineers for stealing hundreds of confidential files from Google and other tech giants, then smuggling the sensitive data to Iran. Three engineers based in [...]
JUSTTHENEWS (Misty Severi) - Three former Silicon Valley engineers charged with stealing Google, tech secrets, shared with Iran
The defendants allegedly used their employment to obtain access to confidential and sensitive information, which they exfiltrated to unauthorized third-party and personal locations and to Iran.
AXIOS (Rebecca Falconer) - Ex-Google engineer found guilty of stealing AI secrets for China
A former Google engineer was found guilty of economic espionage and theft of confidential AI technology for the benefit of China's government, the FBI said Monday. Why it matters: Intelligence and defense officials have long warned of increased efforts by Beijing and others to obtain U.S. intellectual property and use AI against American interests . State of play A federal jury in San Francisco convicted Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, 38, of seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets, per an FBI post on X Monday. - Ding was accused of stealing thousands of pages of confidential information containing Google's trade secrets related to artificial intelligence technology and sharing them with two…
NYTIMES (Tripp Mickle) - California Jury Convicts Ex-Google Engineer of Stealing AI Secrets
A federal jury found that Linwei Ding stole thousands of confidential files to help him start a company in Beijing.