Judge denies acquittal for ex-Google engineer convicted of stealing trade secrets

A federal judge denied a motion for acquittal or a new trial for Linwei Ding, a former Google software engineer convicted of stealing trade secrets related to Google’s artificial intelligence technology for Chinese companies. The judge ruled that the government provided sufficient evidence to prove Ding’s intent to benefit himself and a Chinese company by stealing proprietary information, upholding the jury’s conviction on 14 counts of theft and economic espionage.