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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.

Margarito and Hayden Pérez move their suadero taco truck into a brick-and-mortar taquería on North Lamar.

A two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals, meant to be built on a high-volume 'unboxed' assembly line. Estimated date.

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.

Tesla is buying back 15 Canadian-market Model 3 and Model Y cars that were imported into the US without the knee airbag and other protections US safety standards require, after wrongly certifying them as compliant; owner letters were due 5 September 2026.

Oracle began another round of layoffs, telling staff by early-morning email that it was their last working day, days after adding about $700 million to its AI-era restructuring plan.

Tesla is expected to publish its third-quarter 2026 vehicle production, deliveries and energy-storage deployments on 2 October, after a 480,126-delivery second quarter; Q3 forecasts run from Goldman Sachs' 435,000 to a 456,000 Visible Alpha consensus.

Tesla is expected to post its third-quarter 2026 financial results after the market close and hold its live Q&A webcast at 4:30 p.m. Central, most likely on Wednesday 21 October; the date is announced in the Q3 deliveries release.

Texas votes for a U.S. Senate seat on November 3, 2026. On 20 September 2026 Polymarket had Democrat James Talarico at 60% against Republican Ken Paxton at 42%, and its companion market gave Democrats a 61% chance of taking the chamber.

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.

Austin's purpose-built circuit opens with a blind 40-metre climb into a hairpin, and borrows corners from Silverstone, Istanbul and Hockenheim.

The airport's second concourse is a standalone midfield building south of the Barbara Jordan Terminal, reached by an underground walkway with moving walkways, and carries a new integrated baggage system. It is meant to open alongside the $865 million Arrivals and Departures Hall under the Journey With AUS programme.