{
  "id": 15670465,
  "title": "US sanctions 5 Chinese entities over ex-Google engineer’s AI trade secrets theft",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/us-sanctions-5-chinese-entities-over-ex-google-engineers-ai-trade-15670465",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-19T22:36:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3371434/us-sanctions-5-chinese-entities-over-ex-google-engineers-ai-trade-secrets-theft"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The US State Department announced on Monday that it was imposing sweeping sanctions under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act (PAIPA) on five Chinese entities suspected of stealing trade secrets from American companies. The targets include Shanghai Zhisuan Technology, founded by former Google software engineer Ding Linwei, venture capital firm MiraclePlus and three related entities.…",
  "key_points": [],
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
        "title": "US sanctions 5 Chinese entities over ex-Google engineer’s AI trade secrets theft",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/us-sanctions-5-chinese-entities-over-ex-google-engineers-ai-trade",
        "published": "2026-10-19T22:36:07.000Z"
      }
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}