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A jury this week found a former Google engineer guilty of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney.

A former Google engineer was found guilty by a federal jury in San Francisco on Thursday of stealing the company’s artificial intelligence technology trade secrets for China.

Linwei Ding, 38, was convicted on seven counts each of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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