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 AustinAustin just posted record VC numbers and simultaneously landed at #24 on the best-cities-for-startups ranking — while Florida cities swept the entire top fiveClarence Thomas walked into UT Austin and called progressivism an existential threat to the Declaration of Independence, to its faceA viral 405K-view video shows Austin influencers paying a homeless man to drink until he cracked his head on the sidewalk — Reddit banned it, X didn'tAman — the world's most exclusive hotel brand — passed on Wyoming and Montana and chose Texas Hill Country instead