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Welcome to Edition 9.08 of the Rocket Report! Some major news this week from the state of Louisiana, previously associated with space due to NASA’s aging Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans. Now the state has a chance to become the epicenter of SpaceX’s Starship program as the company plans to invest up to $100…

On August 15 we looked at Computer History, OpenAI’s new activity recorder for the Mac. The line that mattered most sat right at the end: it was not available in Europe. That changed on August 20, when OpenAI switched the feature on for the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

When you think of venture capitalists, you usually think of a familiar list of names from Silicon Valley—yet the one you would least expect to find on it might be Xi Jinping. On July 27th, China’s biggest modern chip-producing company, CXMT, went public at 8.66 yuan per share and raised 57.9 billion yuan (8.6 billion USD).