The Austin Daily News - May 11, 2026

In this week's issue: A man smoking crack and lunging at a park worker with scissors — at a children's playground directly adjacent to Barton Springs, while 100+ kids played and 911 calls went unanswered for 30 minutes Three separate companies committed billions to Texas AI infrastructure in a single week — chips, fiber, and compute — and why that combination is something no other state can claim Tesla's Austin robotaxi fleet hit 39 vehicles and expanded to night operations, but the real clock is ticking: a Texas regulatory deadline lands in 17 days Texas legislators wrote a summer camp safety law so technically unhinged that one Hill Country camp permanently closed — and only 9 of 300 camps had licenses three weeks before summer Today is Day 1 of Austin's expanded APD encampment sweeps. Let's get into it.