They won't start from scratch.
You can license ARM cores, scale up the design a bit and get to first pre-production units within a year or two.
OpenAI needs extremely large amounts of computing power and is almost 100% dependent on Nvidia to get it. That's not a good situation to be in. Even if they can't compete with Nvidia directly, building their own chips might be cheaper than paying Nvidia's profit margin.
It's called Webb-constant now.
As a professional dev my reaction to broken things is more like "ah fuck, not again! I hope it's nothing serious.".
How exactly is SSL terminated in your setup? Usually, you'd use something like nginx or apache for termination, but I don't see that in your description?
So who exactly has the private key?
Honestly, the value proposition of old business computers is almost unbeatable.
Yes, it's not the most recent hardware, but decent enough, especially the chonky boi ThinkPads are very easy to repair/upgrade and built like tanks (though only Russian ones, they barely withstand an RPG hit, which is a shame).
It's a raspberry pi 1. Those things have 256mb of RAM and you simply won't do much porting around pihole.
Containers do have limitations, and this is one.
Given the extremely limited resources: why bother with containers? You're not going to run many other services anyway.
How about Chromebooks?
You can put Linux on most of them and they're perfectly capable of (even designed for) running Chrome and Firefox.
He starts sounding like Kim Jong Un.
You can filter for aircraft used when booking a plane.
Just to play devil's advocate here: if that system can scan better than current systems, it's already a win. If that system can scan more efficiently than current systems, even with false positives, that could be a win, if used as a screening layer.
There could be use cases for this, or it's just buzzwords and marketing.
Dell Precision, HP Probook for example. There are probably more, but these are the ones that I know of.