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Last August, attorneys for Anthony Levandowski, who left Google to found his own company, ended up as an engineer at Uber, and briefly ran his own techtopian church, said, “He didn’t steal anything from anyone.” On Thursday, Levandowski said in papers filed in U.S. federal court, “I stole.”
A former employee of Google and Uber credited as being one of the top engineers in the self-driving vehicle space, Anthony Levandowski, has reportedly filed for bankruptcy after he was ordered to cough up $US179 ($271) million to settle with Google over an apparent contract breach.
One-time autonomous vehicle wunderkind Anthony Levandowski — the central figure in Waymo’s contentious lawsuit against Uber — has been charged with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets, the New York Times reports, bringing the high-profile corporate espionage case back into the news.
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