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 the only fully-unsupervised robotaxi market on Earth — no safety driver, no supervisor, just the ca

In this week's issue:

- Austin's $7.1 billion transit project just got stabbed in the back by Texas's own senator — and the plan has been cut in half since voters approved it

- A $27M foreclosure auction on a prime downtown IHOP parcel that may be the most valuable undeveloped land in the entire city

- Michael and Susan Dell just became UT Austin's first billion-dollar donors — with an AI-native hospital to prove it

- Tesla robotaxis are no longer just an Austin thing

Let's ride.

In this week's issue:

- Austin home prices just hit their lowest point since March 2021 — and pending sales are surging 11%, which means the floor may already be behind us

- A Facebook group and one hostile city bureaucrat killed a 70-megawatt data center in Hutto — here's how NIMBY organizing is quietly blocking Texas's AI future

- Tesla's robotaxi just expanded to Dallas and Houston, making Texas home to three simultaneous robotaxi cities at $2.73 a mile — four days before Q1 earnings

- Austi

In today's issue:

- Tesla's Cortex 2.0 AI supercomputer is firing up at Giga Texas this month — 500 MW of proprietary compute, Megapack capacity doubling, and a 10-million-unit-per-year Optimus factory going up next door

- Samsung's Taylor fab holds its equipment move-in ceremony Thursday — the moment a $16.5B chip deal and years of construction delays turn into an actual working semiconductor factory

- Tesla's unsupervised robotaxis just landed in Dallas and Houston simultaneously, with Housto

In this week's issue:

- Tesla robotaxi expands from Austin to Dallas and Houston — fully unsupervised from day one, no safety driver, no apology

- A Travis County judge who had three documented chances to lock up a violent repeat offender before he got behind the wheel drunk, coked up, and careless — and killed a 26-year-old UT engineer at a red light

- xAI quietly moves into 112,000 square feet at the Seaholm Power Plant — the exact building where Musk announced TERAFAB two months ago

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In this week's issue:

- Austin's own Environmental Commission moves to kill data centers inside city limits — while a $200M project just got murdered by Hutto NIMBYs with a procedural trick from the Texas code

- Elon Musk's Austin empire going from blueprints to bulldozers simultaneously at Seaholm Power Plant and Giga Texas

- Downtown Austin could legally hit 1,200 feet — thanks to a state law, not city hall

- Six dedicated encampment sweep teams are finally launching, driven by 775 monthly 31

In this week's issue:

- Abbott's April 23 ultimatum clock is ticking — $2.5M in grants gone, repaid within 30 days, if Austin doesn't reverse its APD-ICE policy by next Wednesday

- Austin startups just raised $4.2 billion in a single quarter — on pace to double the city's all-time annual record

- A proposal that would let downtown Austin go 1,200 feet into the sky, more than tripling the current cap

- 12 driverless Tesla Model Ys loose on Austin streets, 20 camping tickets written since October

In this week's issue:

- Texas just beat Massachusetts in venture capital for the first time in recorded history — and the Boston Globe had to break the news

- Austin's homeless crisis hits a new low: a knife-wielding man menacing children in a park for days while 911 and 311 both refused to respond

- Tesla's Austin robotaxi fleet: zero new crashes since January, with full unsupervised deployment potentially weeks away

- Black's Barbecue — est. 1932 — just bought the old Trudy's property near UT

In this week's issue:

- Giga Texas is running three simultaneous mega-construction projects right now — Cybercab production ramp, Cortex 2.0 AI supercomputer, and an Optimus robot factory — all at once, all in Austin

- A UT Austin spinout just raised $520M on top of $415M to become a top-5 humanoid robotics company globally by valuation

- Austin city officials handed out propane tanks to homeless encampments — 430 fires later, someone should probably be fired

- The Austin city council missed a

In this week's issue:

- Pew Charitable Trusts confirms Austin rents fell faster than every other major U.S. city — here's exactly what deregulation did

- Tesla's unsupervised robotaxi fleet hit a new confirmed high, and a Deutsche Bank analyst just called the ride "impressive and seamless"

- Austin's transit agency tried to spend $47 million on luxury downtown office views while the city cuts services — the mayor shut it down

- The city is finally deploying a permanent, full-time homeless camp