Former Google Engineer Charged with Stealing AI Trade Secrets, OpenAI Signs Deals for French and Spanish Language News Content, and More XR News

Linwei Ding, a former Google software engineer, has been accused of stealing confidential AI trade secrets from the company and collaborating with two China-based AI startups. Ding could face up to 10 years in prison for uploading confidential files to his personal Google Cloud over a period of two years. The FBI discovered over 500 unique files of confidential information stolen from Google after seizing Ding's electronic devices. Adaptive AI has secured $20 million in seed funding to allow LLMs to learn from human feedback through reinforcement learning, and has emerged from stealth mode. Additionally, OpenAI has signed deals with Le Monde and Prisa to provide their ChatGPT models with news content in French and Spanish.