EV maker Lucid says Uber agreed to buy 35K+ additional Lucid vehicles for its robotaxi fleet and invest 200M more, taking its total Lucid investment to 500M (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)

Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: EV maker Lucid says Uber agreed to buy 35K+ additional Lucid vehicles for its robotaxi fleet and invest 200M more, taking its total Lucid investment to 500M — Uber will purchase at least 35,000 additional Lucid vehicles, designed exclusively for use as part of Uber's future global robo-taxi service

Amazon quietly expands Amazon Autos to offer cars from Kia, Mazda, Subaru, Chevrolet, and Jeep, after launching with Hyundai; the service is in 130+ US cities (Sean McLain/Wall Street Journal)
Analysis and filings: Google owns a ~5% SpaceX stake, down from 6.11% at 2025's end; if SpaceX hits a 2T IPO valuation, Google's stake would be worth 100B (Bloomberg)
Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend 7.5B+ on buying robotaxis and 2.5B+ on equity stakes in their makers over the next few years (Financial Times)
AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest 60M in London-based self-driving tech startup Wayve as part of an extension to its 1.2B Series D, announced in February (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Source: Techmeme | 2026-04-14

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