{
  "id": 2260884,
  "title": "A US judge tosses part of the conviction of ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding, who was found guilty of stealing AI trade secrets to benefit two Chinese companies (Tom Hals/Reuters)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/a-us-judge-tosses-part-of-the-conviction-of-ex-google-engineer-linwei",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-21T00:05:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-google-engineers-conviction-stealing-ai-secrets-partially-overturned-2026-08-20/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A federal judge on Thursday tossed part of the conviction of former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, who was found guilty earlier …",
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  "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."
}