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A faulty CrowdStrike Falcon update on 19 July 2024 crashed about 8.5 million Windows systems, grounding US airlines and disrupting airports worldwide in the largest IT outage in history.

TxDOT started the rebuild of eight miles of I-35 through central Austin, which lowers the mainlanes, removes the 1970s upper decks and adds two non-tolled high-occupancy-vehicle managed lanes in each direction from US 290 East to SH 71/Ben White Boulevard. First work was the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard bridge; the corridor is not finished until 2033.

Texas's Woman and Child Protection Act takes effect, letting private citizens sue anyone who makes, mails or provides abortion pills into Texas for at least $100,000 per violation, while barring suits against the woman.

A federal magistrate judge combined 33 class actions over the Cl0p theft of Oracle E-Business Suite data into In re Oracle Corporation Data Breach Litigation.

At Austin's old Seaholm Power Plant, Elon Musk launched Terafab, a joint Tesla, SpaceX and xAI plan to make logic, memory and packaged AI chips under one roof, starting with a prototype fab at Giga Texas.

Ken Paxton sent Lululemon USA a civil investigative demand to test whether its activewear contains PFAS 'forever chemicals' that buyers would not expect from its wellness marketing; Lululemon says it phased PFAS out in fiscal 2023.

The 74-storey, 1,022-foot tower above Waller Creek opens in stages, starting with its 251-room 1 Hotel, and stacks 703,000 square feet of offices and 352 flats above it. At full height it passes Houston's JPMorgan Chase Tower, which had been the tallest building in Texas since 1981, by 23 feet.

Tesla put its two-seat Cybercab, which has no steering wheel or pedals, into robotaxi service in Austin after an invitation-only launch at ACL Live on 3 September 2026, opening rides to the public the next evening.

1 Hotel Austin, the brand's first hotel in Texas, opened on 18 September 2026 inside the 74-story Waterline tower with 252 rooms and suites.

A film festival and screenwriters conference; the end date is listed as November 4 or 5 by different sources.

A free literary festival with author talks around the Capitol and nearby venues.

Persian dining planned for the Rainey Street area.

Austin Transit Partnership starts building a 9.8-mile line with 15 stations, running three ways out of downtown and crossing Lady Bird Lake on a new bridge. The board picked the Stacy Witbeck-Sundt joint venture Austin Rail Constructors in February 2026; the first trains are due in 2033 and the cost is put above $8.2 billion.

A marathon, half marathon and 5K finishing at the Capitol.