The 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.