{"id":341176,"date":"2026-06-18T10:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/341176\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:57:22","slug":"tech-stocks-today-uber-and-lucid-expanding-in-houston-intels-latest-chip-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/341176\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech stocks today: Uber and Lucid expanding in Houston, Intel&#8217;s latest chip moves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Tech stocks were largely higher in early trading Wednesday, as SpaceX continued to gain momentum after its initial public offering Friday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">On Wednesday, Uber and Lucid announced that they&#8217;re expanding their <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/markets\/stocks\/article\/uber-and-lucid-pick-houston-as-next-robotaxi-market-as-battle-with-waymo-tesla-heats-up-111946695.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" data-ylk=\"slk:robotaxi%20service%20to%20Houston;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;cpos:1;pos:1;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;outcm:mb_qualified_link\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;robotaxi service to Houston&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yContentType&quot;:&quot;story&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">robotaxi service to Houston<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The companies previously announced San Francisco as their launch city, with plans to begin offering autonomous rides later this year. Houston will get self-driving rides in 2027.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Late Tuesday Intel said it&#8217;s latest chip architecture, its 18A-P, has entered into initial production. A more powerful node than its 18A, the news provides an additional boost to Intel&#8217;s ongoing turnaround effort, and could help with its push to become a strong rival the world&#8217;s largest chip manufacturer TSMC.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Earlier Tuesday SpaceX said that it will purchase AI coding service Cursor for $60 billion. The news comes after SpaceX&#8217;s blockbuster public debut on Friday, and as its market capitalization surpassed Amazon&#8217;s (<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/AMZN\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" data-ylk=\"slk:AMZN;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;cpos:2;pos:1\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;AMZN&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AMZN<\/a>).  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tech stocks were largely higher in early trading Wednesday, as SpaceX continued to gain momentum after its initial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,121691,85599,2223,121692],"class_list":["post-341176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-initial-public-offering","tag-lucid","tag-spacex","tag-tech-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}