The Austin Daily News - April 23, 2026

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