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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May 03, 2026The Austin Daily News - May 3, 2026
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 Braunfels
It's Gary Clark Jr. Day in Austin, the whole month of May at Antone's is sold out, and there's a free merch pop-up happening right now
Let's get into it.
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15min
May 02, 2026The Austin Daily News - May 2, 2026
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
Infowars physically locked and dark after 27 years in Austin
Rock and roll.
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15min
May 01, 2026The Austin Daily News - May 1, 2026
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 what he built without a single institution behind him
Rock and roll.
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15min
April 30, 2026The Austin Daily News - April 30, 2026
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 infrastructure
A Meow Wolf co-founder is building a "neuroscience bathhouse" steps from Barton Springs, and guests will wear EKG monitors while soaking
Tesla's unsupervised robotaxi count in Austin just hit 19 — and the community trackers are adding new vehicles faster than Tesla is announcing them
Let's get into it.
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15min
April 29, 2026The Austin Daily News - April 29, 2026
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 altercation outside Sam's BBQ became East Austin's second six-person shooting in a single weekend — one suspect arrested, zero excuses left
Kelly Slater's celebrity wave pool hit $4.6 million in contractor liens and construction has stopped — McConaughey, Tony Hawk, and Drew Brees each dropped $1.25M to get in
$51 billion in state property tax relief and Austin homeowners somehow ended up with zero net relief
Let's get into it.
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13min
April 28, 2026The Austin Daily News - April 28, 2026
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 viral with 268,000 views — and the city's soft-on-crime leadership is getting the blame
Austin has $90M worth of bridges falling apart and a city government budgeting $4M a year to fix them
Texas is moving. Let's go.
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15min
April 27, 2026The Austin Daily News - April 27, 2026
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, while APD has no arrests
Lammes Candies — Austin since 1885, five generations, the first neon sign in this city — is closing its stores
Tesla's Austin robotaxi fleet: 15-20 cars, 10 months in — the number serious investors actually need
Let's get into it.
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14min
April 26, 2026The Austin Daily News - April 26, 2026
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
Clarence Thomas walked into UT Austin and called progressivism an existential threat to the Declaration of Independence, to its face
A 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't
Aman — the world's most exclusive hotel brand — passed on Wyoming and Montana and chose Texas Hill Country instead
Let's ride.
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17min
April 25, 2026The Austin Daily News - April 25, 2026
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 anyone. Let's get into it.
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13min
April 24, 2026 The Austin Daily News - April 24, 2026
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 the state still stalling on ICE compliance — with up to $20 million on the line
- A Stuttgart phot
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15min

FAQs about The Austin Daily News:

How many episodes does The Austin Daily News have?

The podcast currently has 99 episodes available.