All the more reason not to acquihire Ive for $6.5B, if true

Does AGI necessarily mean super-genius? Was KITT AGI? I'm not sure he could design products?

Is VC really funding a trillion dollars of GPU purchases to replace labor that could instead be bid out to developing world mechanical turks for $1/hr?

No the term for that is ASI...artifical super intelligence. People in AI community have different timelines for that than AGI.