AI’s Stack Gets Real: Chips, Trust, and Agent Security

Thursday, April 30, 2026 · 3 min

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Today’s strongest pods go beneath AI’s demo layer: Reiner Pope turns frontier-model training and inference into a blackboard economics lesson, Sam Altman talks trust and AGI cooperation, and Okta frames non-human identity as the next enterprise security land grab.

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How GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini are actually trained and served – Reiner Pope — Dwarkesh Patel
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Okta's CRO: From $850M Losses to $760M Profit — Sophie Buonassisi
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Can We Trust AI? Sam Altman Hopes So - YouTube — Nicholas Thompson
# Can We Trust AI? Sam Altman Hopes So | The Most Interesting Thing in AI - Channel: Nicholas Thompson - Length: 51:33 - Views: 7.4K - Likes: 261 - Published: 2026-04-29T02:01:03-07:00 - Category: Science & Technology - Language: en ## Description OpenAI’s Sam Altman sits for an interview with Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, to discuss AI’s trustworthiness, its dangers, and its impact…