In this week's issue:

- A mob of 12 attacked two gun store employees outside a bar on East 7th Street — one drew his legal firearm, stopped the threat, and is now charged with murder while the mob walks free

- Austin median rent has fallen to $1,296 — below the national average — and a Pew study explains exactly which deregulation moves made it happen

- Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan shook hands with Musk, Intel stock jumped 8%, and Terafab is now officially real with two Austin fabs and a specific chip

In this week's issue:

- SpaceX quietly installing chip equipment 30 miles outside Austin — and it's not the Terafab you heard about in March

- Austin's CISO fired amid an IT scandal that touches Dallas, $210M in annual overspend, and a City Council that just made it harder to track lobbyists

- A Friday night homicide outside an East Austin cocktail bar — Austin's 20th of 2026

- An AI that legally owns a lobster restaurant in Austin, with human employees reporting to it

Let's get into it.

In this week's issue:

- Tesla invested $6 billion and beat every job target — Travis County said the paperwork was wrong and withheld millions anyway

- A Texas judge hit pause on the smokeable hemp ban after state agencies rewrote the law without asking the legislature

- An 18-year-old AI founder couldn't raise money in Jacksonville, moved to Austin, and closed $250K in a matter of weeks

- Austin upzoned its neighborhoods to allow three housing units per lot — then heritage tree rules quietly b

In this week's issue:

- 60 Cybercabs sitting in the Giga Texas outbound lot — and Deutsche Bank just rode one for 40 minutes and $17.35

- A mentally ill vagrant with 10 prior dismissed charges put a 62-year-old library reader in the ICU — and DA Garza's office called incarceration "ineffective"

- Austin's CISO was secretly running an LLC while guarding the city's entire cybersecurity infrastructure

- Austin billionaires and Musk-network attorneys quietly buying Congress to keep AI unregulated

In this week's issue:

- Elderly injury offenses in Austin hit an all-time high in 2025 — more than 4x the 2014 level — and the people responsible are named Garza (both of them)

- Intel just joined Musk's Terafab chip moonshot, and the deal is bigger than it sounds

- Travis County handed Tesla 91% of its tax rebates and withheld the rest over paperwork — while Giga Texas shed 22% of its workforce

- Austin's zoning reforms unlocked ~120,000 new homes and rents actually came down — turns out abund

In this week's issue:

- Intel just answered the biggest question about Terafab — and it changes everything about how Musk's $25B chip factory actually gets built

- Austin produced the steepest rent decline of any major US city, and the skyline comparison to San Francisco is genuinely embarrassing for the coastal model

- A UT engineering student built the most comprehensive AV tracking platform in Austin using a traffic cam pipeline — 7 million rows of data, in his spare time

- 22% of Tesla's Au

In this week's issue:

- A city internal review found Austin's $25M arts grant contract riddled with unverifiable documentation, zero performance metrics, and the same failures auditors flagged in 2002 — and 2011, and 2012, and 2018

- Tesla's Cybercab just rolled into volume production at Giga Texas, Austin is now the manufacturing capital of the autonomous vehicle revolution, and the program lead just walked out the door

- Katz's Never Kloses — the legendary 24-hour deli that fed Austin's night

In this week's issue:

- A $2 billion AI data center deal in West Texas just vaporized — and what CoreWeave did next changes how the whole sector finances itself

- Dan Patrick wants Texas to hold bitcoin as a state asset and ban Kalshi as gambling, in the same breath

- Tesla robotaxi crossed the Colorado River into downtown Austin for the first time — but the viral "94 vehicles" number is a lie

- Austin Energy is routing money out the door while hiking your property taxes in a market that's alre

In this week's issue:

- Austin just birthed its biggest venture round ever — $1.75 billion for a drone-boat company building the Navy's future fleet

- Waymo's software recall failed, kids are still getting endangered at school bus stops, and the NTSB is now watching

- Austin hit #1 GDP among large U.S. metros — and two men were murdered here in 12 hours

- The Travis County DA is accused of hiding evidence in a use-of-force case that's been set for trial seven times and never gone

Let's get int

In this week's issue:

- ERCOT's grid has 357,000 MW of data center requests queued against ~85,500 MW of peak demand — and Texas legislators are now grilling the people responsible

- Autonomous cabless freight trucks, no steering wheel, no driver cab — rolling down SH 130 between Austin and San Antonio with federal approval

- Tesla's unsupervised robotaxi geofence just crossed the Colorado River into downtown Austin for the first time — 245 square miles and expanding

- Austin homeowners can now