Uber just fired Anthony Levandowski, the employee accused of stealing Google’s self-driving tech

Earlier this year, Waymo, Alphabet's self-driving car subsidiary, launched a surprise and somewhat sensational lawsuit against Uber. According to the suit, a former Waymo engineer named Anthony Levandowski allegedly misappropriated hundreds of gigabytes of proprietary technical information about Waymo's self-driving efforts and handed it over to Uber.
While Uber initially claimed that the allegations were frivolous and baseless, early court proceedings were far from favorable for the ride sharin