The Austin Daily News

In this week's issue: Three Austin teens with an active warrant for prior gun theft turned 28 hours into 12 shootings, two fire station attacks, and one South Austin shelter-in-place — because the DA already had his shot and didn't take it A 29-year-old Dell heir just raised $1.3 billion, hit a $4 billion valuation, and signed a 40-megawatt deal with Austin Energy to rewire the Texas grid from the...

In this week's issue: The world's most profitable trading firm just let cameras inside its Texas AI data center — 4,032 GPUs, liquid-cooled racks, 8,000 km of fiber, and a $6 billion bet on what comes next Travis County ranked 7th in the nation for housing stock growth — 16,197 new units in one year — and Austin's median price is finally falling Austin's "low crime" numbers may be a fiction built...

In this week's issue: The tallest building in Texas is about to open — in Austin, not Houston, ending a 45-year streak Texas deployed AI to kill its own regulations — 435 rules flagged, $100M projected impact, 69,000 words of administrative code on the chopping block A production Tesla Cybercab with no steering wheel, built at Giga Texas, spotted operating on South Austin streets DA Garza told a r...

In this week's issue: Abbott bypassing Austin's DA entirely — the state task force now operating in Austin and the murder case that made it necessary Austin officially a million-person city, and the AI system it just deployed to fix its decades-long permitting disaster Voters approved 27 miles of light rail — what they're actually getting, and who's suing over it A man caught on his own Nest camer...

In this week's issue: Hill County just became the first Texas county to block data centers — and the state's own lawyers say they probably can't do that Austin's 911 system is six months past its own consolidation deadline, no road map in sight, while Abbott sends a task force to do what the city won't An Austin drone company went public and immediately reported an 80%+ revenue collapse and a $4.5...

In this week's issue: Blue Origin is targeting a 1.3 million square foot aerospace manufacturing campus 25 miles northeast of Austin — $650M+, 2,000 jobs, and it turns Williamson County into the most concentrated aerospace corridor in Texas Austin just agreed to borrow money to pay $35 million for a wrongful conviction case from 1991 — the largest settlement in city history, and the actual killer...

In this week's issue: Tesla is turning Giga Texas into the world's largest robotics and AI manufacturing complex — 5.2 million square feet of new north campus construction, 230,000+ AI training GPUs on-site, and a 10-million-units-per-year robot target that would make southeast Austin the most consequential manufacturing address on earth The Texas Legislature is coming for Austin's $50M utility bi...

In this week's issue: A man smoking crack and lunging at a park worker with scissors — at a children's playground directly adjacent to Barton Springs, while 100+ kids played and 911 calls went unanswered for 30 minutes Three separate companies committed billions to Texas AI infrastructure in a single week — chips, fiber, and compute — and why that combination is something no other state can claim...

In this week's issue: Austin council voted 9-1 to bulldoze the last neighborhood shields blocking housing density — and the council member who personally promised those shields would hold co-sponsored the resolution The city has spent $35 million on outside lawyers since 2020, including nearly a million dollars to fight — and then settle — a botched SWAT raid that caused $23,000 in actual damage T...

In this week's issue: SpaceX filing for a June IPO at up to $2 trillion — and viral back-of-envelope math says hundreds of Austin employees are about to get generationally rich An Austin drone-defense startup that kills threats for $10 a pop just saw its valuation jump 14x to $2 billion, and Ted Cruz showed up at their office the day before A man barricaded under Highway 71 throwing debris at cars...

In this week's issue: Six APD teams launching daily encampment sweeps on May 11 — but only a few dozen shelter beds exist citywide SpaceX files the first hard site notice for TERAFAB: $55-119 billion, Grimes County, June 3 public hearing Amazon's data center subsidiary quietly closes on Bastrop County land while the city bonds $1.18 billion to nearly double airport capacity The IHOP at Cesar Chave...

In this week's issue: 410 gigawatts of data center power requests queued up in Texas — and a radical private-capital fix that could cut the line entirely Tesla's Austin robotaxi fleet rolling unsupervised after dark for the first time, while the Cybercab comes off the Giga Texas line A Cinco de Mayo restaurant shooting that left one dead and four injured, and Austin's 28th fatal crash of 2026 on S...

In this week's issue: Dell's board just voted unanimously to bring the company's legal home back to Texas — the kid who started it in a UT dorm room is completing the circle A Cedar Park rocket company is now in the same room as Lockheed and Raytheon competing for Trump's $185 billion Golden Dome missile defense program Texas set a national record: 274,183 families applied for school choice vouche...

In this week's issue: The Texas AI data center gold rush is separating real money from vapor — one company just crashed 86% from a $12B+ valuation Austin Energy is a government monopoly hiding in your electric bill — and most residents have no idea ARM is reportedly in talks to join TERAFAB's R&D initiative, and the Austin Business Journal has sources ACL Fest 2026 drops its lineup tomorrow mo...

In this week's issue: Austin's $5.3B humanoid robot company just hired the people who deployed self-driving cars at scale — and a new robot is coming Spirit Airlines is dead, 17,000 jobs gone, and the Biden DOJ killed it — here's what Austin travelers need to do right now Five people from Amarillo's pickleball club killed in a fiery plane crash near Wimberley, headed to a tournament in New Braunfe...

In this week's issue: Elon Musk admitting under oath that xAI used OpenAI's own models to build Grok — while simultaneously suing OpenAI for $130 billion The U.S. Army proposing a 3-gigawatt data center at Fort Bliss that would consume more electricity than all of El Paso Five Austin council members lining up to kill $142 million in IT savings while the city stares at a $26 million deficit Infowar...

In this week's issue: Elon Musk's $20-25 billion chip factory — the most audacious infrastructure bet in Austin's history The deregulation data is in: HOME-built homes selling at 53% below traditional new construction Samsung's Taylor fab installs EUV equipment — first chips rolling this year, with a $16.5B Tesla deal anchoring the line David Allan Coe, the outlaw's outlaw, is dead at 86 — and wha...

In this week's issue: A man with 33 prior Travis County charges — including 3 aggravated robberies — murdered a 35-year-old woman, and Jose Garza's office declined to prosecute him. He's free. Oracle executed the largest layoff in its 47-year history right here at its Lady Bird Lake campus — 20,000 to 30,000 jobs vaporized in a single 6 AM email — while simultaneously committing $156 billion to AI...

In this week's issue: Texas's $10 billion hemp industry just won a temporary courtroom reprieve — but the Friday enforcement deadline is still ticking, and the state's lawyers tried to kick the cameras out Two former Bitcoin mines in West Texas converting to AI data centers with a combined 3.1 gigawatts of planned capacity, and one just delivered its first live data hall to CoreWeave A physical al...

In this week's issue: The kid who built chips in his parents' garage is now moving a 120,000 sq ft semiconductor company — co-founded with the most important chip architect of the last 30 years — to Austin Waymo blocked an ambulance during a mass shooting, then declined to show up to a public safety meeting about it A congressional candidate's video of a Sunday night East Austin shooting went vira...

In this week's issue: An Austin startup suing a YC-backed San Francisco 21-year-old for faking credentials, infiltrating their product, and then marketing the stolen UI as "vibe coded" Over $1 billion in voter-approved Austin bond projects sitting unbuilt since 2006 — and Watson wants more money in November Congregation Beth Israel vandalized with a swastika for the second time in five years, whil...

In this week's issue: A 26-year-old Duke dropout raised $20M at a $100M valuation from Bill Ackman, Josh Kushner, and the Coinbase co-founder — to build nuclear reactors and cargo drones in a Lockhart trailer park 40 miles from Austin Austin just posted record VC numbers and simultaneously landed at #24 on the best-cities-for-startups ranking — while Florida cities swept the entire top five Claren...

In this week's issue: The Abbott/Austin ICE standoff is over — and Austin was the last Texas city to fold A nearly $1 billion hotel and convention center is coming to the COTA corridor A Pflugerville chip company just landed $4.83M in state money and is hiring 250 people Someone got arrested for climbing I-35 near Rainey Street and ripping stoplights off the infrastructure Texas doesn't wait for a...

In this week's issue: - Tesla engineered the Cybercab to meet all federal safety standards without a single waiver — meaning the 2,500-unit annual cap that cages every other autonomous vehicle maker simply does not apply, and volume production is running right now at Giga Texas - Governor Abbott's deadline came and went, Dallas folded, Houston folded, and Austin is now the last major Texas city in...

In this week's issue: - Michael Dell just wrote a $750M check to build America's first AI-native hospital — in Austin, the largest U.S. city that somehow didn't have a real academic medical center until now - Firefly Aerospace already landed on the moon, and now they're building a 144,000-square-foot campus in Cedar Park — five times their old footprint - Tesla's Q1 earnings are in, and Austin is...