A Chinese national living in California was arrested for allegedly stealing artificial intelligence-related technology from Google, the US Department of Justice said on Wednesday. Linwei Ding, a former Google software engineer, was charged with four counts of theft of trade secrets, US Attorney General Merrick Garland said at an event in San Francisco. “We allege the defendant stole artificial intelligence-related trade secrets from Google while secretly working for two companies based in China,” Garland said. “We will fiercely protect sensitive technologies developed in America from falling i…