San Francisco — One of Silicon Valley’s most highly prized engineers filed for bankruptcy after Google won a $179m award against him over his defection to Uber Technologies.

Anthony Levandowski’s understanding of self-driving cars spawned multimillion-dollar bidding wars for his talent, but he got caught between the companies’ fierce competition in the race to own the technology...

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