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Self-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to stealing Google trade secrets

Ex-Uber Engineer Accused Of Stealing From Google’s Waymo Self Driving Car Project Appears In Court Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Anthony Levandowski, the self-driving car engineer and former Google executive who joined Uber via an acquisition of his autonomous truck company Otto, has agreed to plead guilty to stealing Google trade secrets, according to Reuters.

The decision is just the latest chapter in the multi-year legal saga involving Levandowski’s roles in both Google and Uber’s fast-growing self-driving car divisions. The lawsuit between Waymo, Alphabet’s now-standalone autonomous car unit, and Uber eventually resulted in a settlement between the two companies back in February of 2018. (Uber paid Waymo more than $244 million as a result.)

But Levandowski remained on the hook for criminal charges of...

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