In this week's issue:

- **Terafab is real, but can Musk actually execute it?** We're rebalancing the hype with hard questions about manufacturing track record, equipment bottlenecks, and realistic timelines.

- **The infrastructure constraint nobody's talking about.** Austin's grid is already at capacity. Terafab needs 10+ gigawatts. This is how ambition meets reality.

- **Creator economy signal.** Independent Austin builders are doubling down on analog culture—what TOMO Mags' brick-and-mortar e

In today's issue:

- Elon Musk unveils TERAFAB — a $20-25B chip plant targeting 1 terawatt of AI compute annually, the biggest semiconductor project in U.S. history, and 80% of the output is going to orbit

- A blockbuster Science paper argues intelligence won't be a singular god-AI but plural, social, and deeply entangled with billions of humans and trillions of agents

- Barton Springs Road fire behind an abandoned restaurant, a brutal bus stabbing on South Lamar, and city officials urging "kind

In today's issue:

- Austin just became the physical center of the AI chip economy — Terafab is launching

- DA Garza's career is collapsing under felony-level misconduct allegations — law enforcement wants him gone

- City Hall admits it's go pro-business or go bankrupt

- Tesla robotaxis hit 20% unsupervised in Austin — FSD is working

Let's get into it.

In this week's issue:

- Tesla's $20-25B chip fab launches TODAY at Giga Texas — America's semiconductor capital

- Austin rents crash 22% from peak — the affordability reset nobody saw coming

- The robotaxi war heats up: 40 Teslas vs. Waymo on Austin streets

- Hoover's Cooking closes after 27 years — East Austin loses another icon

- Willie Nelson, 92, still shredding at Luck Reunion with his sons

Welcome to the new Austin.

In this week's issue:

- Austin just proved every NIMBY wrong — housing deregulation caused rents to crater 19% while the rest of America watched theirs climb

- Tesla's $20 billion Terafab kicks off tomorrow: Austin becomes ground zero for the most ambitious chip manufacturing bet outside of Taiwan

- The autonomous vehicle transparency divide — Tesla hides every crash detail while Waymo publishes everything, and both are scaling fast in Austin

- Hoover's Cooking closes after 27 years on Manor Ro

In this week's issue:

- Google's free AI design tool just obliterated Figma's stock price

- Samsung's 2.7 million square foot AI chip factory rising in Taylor

- SXSW music attendance surges 20% while the Continental Club gets a Key to the City

- Austin's housing boom proves free markets work better than rent control

Let's get into it.

In this week's issue:

- Felix the AI agent hit $150K in revenue — now it's hiring a human

- Austin's data center boom is drinking 399 billion gallons of Texas water

- SXSW startups just raised eyebrows (and $22 billion in alumni funding)

- California made VCs ask their CEOs: "Are you gay?"

Let's get after it.

In this week's issue:

- An Austin entrepreneur built a zero-human company that made $300K its first month

- Data centers just outspent office buildings for the first time in American history

- SXSW Pitch winners and the $22B story behind past participants

- The big data study proving academia went full left-wing monoculture

Time to rock and roll.

Sunday was 97°F—the hottest March day in 50 years. By Monday morning, Austin was 39°F and activating emergency cold weather shelters. A 58-degree swing in under 24 hours. The city went from shorts and AC to space heaters and panic in one afternoon, tied to one of the largest single-day temperature drops on record. This is what chaos looks like when you live in a place where the weather doesn't follow rules.

But the temperature whiplash is just local meteorology. The real disruption happening th

In today's issue:

- Austin is becoming the headquarters of American defense tech—Anduril just landed a $20B Army contract, Saronic is hosting NATO ambassadors, and venture capital now exceeds Pentagon R&D spending

- A man was beaten unconscious and skull-stomped at Austin Central Library; his attacker had 10 Travis County cases, 3 felonies, and 4 assaults—all dismissed

- Zach Dell is building a battery factory downtown that will reshape Texas's power grid; Base Power just deployed 100 MW of hom