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Ex-Uber CEO grilled about old texts in high-tech heist case

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is back in a San Francisco courtroom to answer questions about discussions he had with an engineer who is accused of stealing Google's self-driving car technology. Wednesday is Kalanick's second day of testimony in a trial centered on allegations that he conspired with former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski to rip off Google's self-driving car project, while Uber was attempting build its own robotic vehicles. Google's project is now called Waymo. A Waymo lawyer confronted Kalanick with several texts between the two in an attempt to prove they would go to extremes for a competitive edge. In one text, Kalanick agreed with Levandowski's comment that "second place is first loser.

 

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