The Austin Daily News - May 16, 2026

In this week's issue: The tallest building in Texas is about to open — in Austin, not Houston, ending a 45-year streak Texas deployed AI to kill its own regulations — 435 rules flagged, $100M projected impact, 69,000 words of administrative code on the chopping block A production Tesla Cybercab with no steering wheel, built at Giga Texas, spotted operating on South Austin streets DA Garza told a reporter he's "not familiar" with a murder case his own office issued a public statement on 10 days earlier Let's get into it.