Ex-Google Employees Charged in Tensor Chip Trade Secret Theft Case

• Two former Google employees, Samaneh Ghandali and Soroor Ghandali, along with Samaneh's husband Mohammadjavad Khosravi, face 14 felony counts.
• Charges include conspiracy, theft of trade secrets related to Google’s Tensor chip development, and destruction of evidence.
• Samaneh Ghandali was a hardware engineer and Soroor Ghandali an intern at Google; both later joined other tech firms.
• The case centers on trade secrets linked to Google’s Tensor chips, which power its Pixel smartphones and are crucial for its AI integration strategy.
• Google strengthened safeguards and alerted law enforcement, stating the indictments are a step towards accountability.