Anthony Levandowski, the former Google self-driving car pioneer who pleaded guilty to stealing a proprietary Google document before launching a rival startup in 2016, was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison. The judge overseeing the case called it the “biggest trade secret crime” he had ever seen. The prison sentence is nine months lower than what federal prosecutors had recommended....
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Around 180,000 people in the U.S. were paying for subscriptions to Twitter, including Twitter Blue, as of mid-January, or less than 0.2% of monthly active users, according to a document viewed by The Information. The tiny number signals the challenge Elon Musk faces in turning the subscription product into a major source of revenue. The U.S. number is about 62% of Twitter’s global...
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