The Austin Daily News - May 29, 2026

In this week's issue: A Cybercab drove itself off the Giga Texas production line on the exact same day Texas legalized commercial Level 4 autonomous deployment — not coincidence, coordination Bastrop County, population 115K, is quietly becoming one of the most consequential places on Earth for AI compute — EdgeConneX, Amazon, and the entire Musk universe are all converging on the same stretch of Texas highway SpaceX rewrote AI training from scratch in bare-metal C for 220,000 GPUs, claiming a 10x speed advantage over Google's best tool Austin's own city auditor just reported that more than two in five pedestrian deaths in Austin involve homeless individuals — and the city can't even reliably track where people are dying The Line hotel on Lady Bird Lake, once a symbol of Austin's hospitality boom, goes to foreclosure auction on June 2 Let's get into it.