The Austin Daily News - May 24, 2026

In this week's issue: The Austin teen shooting suspect was an undocumented immigrant — previously arrested for stealing the same gun, released without an ICE hold — and the city had deliberately turned off the cameras that could have stopped him eleven months earlier SpaceX's S-1 filing just revealed that xAI is burning $30.8 billion per year on AI infrastructure, more than 60% of SpaceX's total capital spending, and almost all of it is in Texas A city auditor found Austin blew $279 million on consultants over two years, and 82% of those contracts never evaluated whether a city employee could have done the job Manor is building a mini-Mueller and Austin is losing an H-E-B, which means the suburbs are winning and the north side is in mourning Let's get into it.