New details regarding the Waymo files Anthony Levandowski had – and how he tried to delete them – came out Oct 2 when a top-secret and hotly contested report was finally made public for the first time in the Waymo vs Uber case.
Levandowski is the former Waymo engineer at the heart of the contentious legal battle between the two rivals, set to go to trial next week. Waymo claims Levandowski nabbed Waymo's self-driving car trade secrets before he left the company and brought them with him to start a new self-driving trucking company called Otto. When Uber acquired Otto, it also acquired a trove of ill-gotten trade secrets that helped the ride-hailing company get a leg up in the autonomous vehicle market, Wyamo claims.