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On his way out, Trump pardons Anthony Levandowski, Berkeley engineer who stole trade secrets He pleaded guilty in federal court to taking information on driverless cars from Google but will no longer face 18 months in federal prison. Anthony Levandowski Wikipedia/Creative Commons Just hours before leaving the White House, President Trump pardoned Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer from Berkeley who pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets about driverless cars from Google and was facing 18 months in prison. Levandowski, who once had a home on Ashby Avenue that was picketed in 201...

Founders Fund partner Trae Stephens, Anduril cofounder Palmer Luckey, and Thiel foundation president Blake Masters also advised Trump on the decision.

This VC introduced Palantir’s first business hire to its earliest engineer, then his business took off You might not know of XYZ Venture Capital, a four-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, but many veterans of Palantir are surely aware of it. XYZ says it has already backed 22 startups whose founders came out of the data analysis company, including, most notably, Anduril, Palmer Luckey’s defense tech startup. In fact, the founder of XYZ, Ross Fubini, says his firm wrote Anduril its first check. It all dates back to a key introduction. Fubini is a Carnegie Mellon grad who...