For the second time in six months, an Apple engineer is being accused of stealing intellectual property from Project Titan, the company’s secretive autonomous vehicle (AV) program, to benefit a Chinese competitor. Apple began investigating when another employee reported seeing the Chinese national taking pictures of a sensitive workspace. (NBC)

Talking point: Last week, CNBC reported that Apple had dismissed 200 employees from the AV program, a move that was billed internally as a restructuring under new leadership. Last year, the company hired Tesla’s chief engineer Doug Field to run the program alongside longtime executive Bob Mansfield. Despite the shakeup, the number of vehicles Apple is testing continued to increase, with more registered test vehicles in California than Google’s Waymo as of March 2018. The last two days have been tough for Apple, with its earnings report confirming a slowdown in iPhones sales and accusations that the company didn’t move quickly enough to resolve a FaceTime glitch that allowed people to spy on iPhone users.