The Austin Daily News - June 10, 2026

In this week's issue: SpaceX announced a factory 10x larger than anything it's ever built — in Bastrop, Texas — to manufacture AI satellites that put data centers in orbit, two days before the largest IPO in human history Austin's robotics unicorn just tripled its own valuation to $5 billion with nearly $1 billion in total Series A capital, and it was born at UT A James Beard Award-winning restaurant that taught Austin what serious Mexican cooking looks like is closing after 15 years, while a bar that opened 18 months ago just landed on Esquire's national best-in-America list City Hall logged 404 ethics complaints last year and opened 11 investigations Let's get into it.