The Austin Daily News

By Justin Murphy

A daily update on tech, culture, and society in and around Austin, Texas.... more

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The podcast currently has 99 episodes available.

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July 28, 2026The Austin Daily News - July 28, 2026
In this week's issue:
The southeast-Austin project Council just green-lit, and what it signals about building here
New rules aimed straight at water-hungry growth
Austin's triple-A credit milestone, and what it actually buys the city
APD footage finally hitting the public record
Let's do this.
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21min
July 10, 2026The Austin Daily News - July 10, 2026
In this week's issue:
Aalo Atomics, an Austin nuclear startup, just achieved criticality — and is now expanding its facility 10x
Olamaie's Michelin-starred closure and the real-estate thesis that explains why Sandy's has survived 80 years while Austin's finest restaurants keep dying
Waymo's 220 million autonomous miles prove self-driving cars are 94% safer than humans — and Austin's numbers are even more striking
A 526-unit Austin apartment complex bought for $61M now heading to auction with a $9.5M opening bid
Five violent deaths in a single Austin weekend — while city officials keep insisting there's no crime problem
Let's get into it.
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15min
July 01, 2026The Austin Daily News - July 1, 2026
In this week's issue:
Apptronik's new 90,000 sq ft Robot Park in North Austin and the Google DeepMind partnership that's making this city the ground-truth data source for humanoid AI
Austin's $8.5 billion Neuralink rival just performed its first long-term brain implant — and today, Neuralink fired back with its own milestone
Tesla's production Cybercab — no steering wheel, no pedals — engineering testing on Austin public roads right now
Austin residential permitting just got 59% faster starting today, and the same group that banned homeless camping in 2021 is forcing a fiscal audit vote in November
Willie Nelson's July 4 Picnic has a serious case of blue dot fever, and a drone is about to deliver your Chipotle order from 300 feet in the air
Texas doesn't wait for permission. Neither do we.
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21min
June 19, 2026The Austin Daily News - June 19, 2026
Hey — quick honest note before we dive in. This is a one-man operation, and I'm in the middle of figuring out a sustainable business model for this thing. I'll aim to keep it daily, but it might be slightly irregular for a little bit. Thanks for being here regardless. Now, the news:
In this week's issue:
Joshua Baer, the man who quietly wired Austin's entire startup ecosystem, dead at 50 in a plane crash near Laredo — and what Capital Factory leaves behind
Texas towns banning data centers outright while billions in AI infrastructure investment pour into the state — the political fracture nobody saw coming
Cedar Park's Firefly Aerospace pockets a $75M NASA contract to send rocket-powered drones hopping across the Moon's south pole
Senate Republicans and the SAVE Act: the real story behind the intra-party standoff on voter citizenship verification
Leroy and Lewis — a Michelin-starred South Austin BBQ joint — is hiding a $10 brisket burger deal that only happens on Mondays
Let's get into it.
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18min
June 18, 2026The Austin Daily News - June 18, 2026
In this week's issue:
Joshua Baer, the man who built Austin's startup machine from the ground up, gone at 50 — and what happens to Capital Factory now
SpaceX just bought the world's most popular AI coding tool for $60 billion, and the entire infrastructure stack ties directly to Central Texas
Waymo now has 200+ robotaxis roaming 133 square miles of Austin — the autonomous ride-hail race is officially on
$90 million FAA grant, a SoftBank land buy outside Rockdale, and billions more flowing into the Central Texas infrastructure corridor
West Campus business owners have stopped calling police on homeless — "What's the point?" — and what that tells you about how broken Austin's public safety response really is
Let's get into it.
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17min
June 13, 2026The Austin Daily News - June 13, 2026
In this week's issue:
The $1 trillion Wall Street giant that just picked Austin over Miami — and why Miami lost on private schools
Billions in data center investment flooding the Austin-SA corridor, but the jobs math is more complicated than either side admits
Elon Musk: officially the first human being in history worth a trillion dollars
Austin's nonprofit grifter class called out by name, publicly, on X
Let's get into it.
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18min
June 12, 2026The Austin Daily News - June 12, 2026
In this week's issue:
An Austin drone boat just pulled two U.S. Army pilots out of the Strait of Hormuz — the first autonomous naval rescue in combat history
Ken Paxton blew out John Cornyn by 28 points, but the actual story is 400,000 Cornyn voters who simply vanished
Firefly Aerospace lands a NASA Moon Base contract, and it's the only publicly traded bet on the lunar south pole
Open meth use at an Austin bus stop, a $5 Waymo, and the market quietly solving what the city refuses to
Let's ride.
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19min
June 11, 2026The Austin Daily News - June 11, 2026
In this week's issue:
Abbott moving to kill $1.3 billion a year in data center tax breaks — and why that's more complicated than it sounds
Joe Lonsdale's argument that AI can collapse permitting from weeks to hours — and the Austin companies already building it
Tesla's Austin Robotaxi fleet nearly tripled in a week, and the number to watch isn't what you think
Blue-green algae back at Red Bud Isle — with a neurotoxin, six dead dogs, and zero lake closures
Let's get into it.
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18min
June 10, 2026The Austin Daily News - June 10, 2026
In this week's issue:
SpaceX announced a factory 10x larger than anything it's ever built — in Bastrop, Texas — to manufacture AI satellites that put data centers in orbit, two days before the largest IPO in human history
Austin's robotics unicorn just tripled its own valuation to $5 billion with nearly $1 billion in total Series A capital, and it was born at UT
A James Beard Award-winning restaurant that taught Austin what serious Mexican cooking looks like is closing after 15 years, while a bar that opened 18 months ago just landed on Esquire's national best-in-America list
City Hall logged 404 ethics complaints last year and opened 11 investigations
Let's get into it.
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20min
June 08, 2026The Austin Daily News - June 8, 2026
In this week's issue:
Austin just vaulted past every American city except four in venture capital — the hard number that ends the "is Austin for real?" debate
The supply-side housing experiment that crashed prices 24% — and why the viral X discourse gets about half of the story right
CrowdStrike is quietly climbing toward becoming Austin's fourth Fortune 500 company, and the recovery story behind it is wild
One in eight Austin employer businesses is Asian-owned — a stat the city's boosters aren't talking about nearly enough
Let's get into it.
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17min

FAQs about The Austin Daily News:

How many episodes does The Austin Daily News have?

The podcast currently has 99 episodes available.