What is a pedon? The dictionary says it’s a soil sample.

Not ordinary Americans. That’s piracy, which is a form of terrorism. Only the wealthiest asshole Americans can steal data.

The fact that Microsoft and OpenAI define Artificial General Intelligence in terms of profit suggests they’re not confident about achieving the real thing:

The two companies reportedly signed an agreement last year stating OpenAI has only achieved AGI when it develops AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits. (Source)

Given this definition, when they say they’ll achieve AGI and beyond, they simply mean they’ll achieve more than $100 billion in profit. It says nothing about what they expect to achieve technically.

Intel has been trying to get itself into that position for years, with huge amounts of public money being pumped in, and it is struggling so badly the company lost patience and fired the CEO who had the best chance of getting this done. And, as others have said, it doesn’t look like TSMC is about to let its US fabs do the most advanced stuff even if they could.

So this move will just make the best technology less accessible to the USA and tech products more expensive for Americans, for the foreseeable future.

Looks like an American salute to me.