US sanctions five Chinese entities tied to ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding
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The State Department targeted firms linked to Ding's AI startup Zhisuan after his trade secret theft conviction The US government has gone after the companies behind the man, not just the man. On October 19, 2026, the US State Department announced sanctions against five Chinese entities linked to Linwei Ding, the former Google software engineer convicted of stealing the company’s AI trade secrets. Ding already has a conviction and a prison sentence. Now Washington is targeting the network that allegedly profited from what he took. The designations were made under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act, known as PAIPA.
Source: Crypto Briefing
