Up Against Reality
de Chris Ippolito and Larry Bentley
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Episode Rewind: Slopocalypse Now
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Welcome to Up Against Reality, a meta-podcast that explores the intersection of humanity and artificial intelligence. Hosted by RAINA and her human co-hosts, Larry Bentley and Chris Ippolito. Featuring riveting conversation, interviews, news and some wild experimentation. It truly is a brave new world, and we\’re here to simplify it for you. It\’s gonna be a wild ride, so buckle up, as A.I. comes crashing Up Against Reality.
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- Episode Rewind: Slopocalypse Now · 1 h 2 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 151RAINA is running the show, kicking off with the week’s AI news – a decade-old bug, an assistant that texts first, a photo giant in trouble, and one very long bus ride. Then we…
- ASML – The Machine Behind the Machines · 46 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 151We explore one of humanity’s greatest engineering achievements: ASML’s extraordinary photolithography machines. Discover how decades of innovation, extreme physics, lasers, and…
- Episode Rewind: Clean-up In Aisle Five · 54 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 150Rewinding our lives to Episode 108, “Clean-up In Aisle Five,” where AI face-plants spectacularly and humans get stuck holding the mop. First, we kick things off with this week’s…
- Cheer and Beer Volume 2 · 31 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 150Enough doom. Enough dread. We’re serving up the AI stories that made us laugh, made us hopeful, and reminded us that the future isn’t always a dumpster fire. LINKS MENTIONED IN…
- Futures Thinking · 36 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 149The future isn’t a random guess—it’s got a blueprint, and we’re stealing the framework to figure out what happens next. Plus, an AI data center copping a seven-figure surprise…
- The New AI Constitution · 37 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 148Who elected Big Tech—and when did AI companies get to write the rules? Plus: Rogue botnets, surveillance burrito bowls, data-center mega bills, and machines inventing their own…
- ChatGPT-6 Astra · 35 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 147OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra is here, and we put it through real-world tests—from controlling desktop apps and editing a podcast to building games, websites, and creative tools—before…
- AI Micro Dramas · 37 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 146Here come the AI micro-dramas — the sixty-second, AI-generated soap operas quietly hijacking your phone. Plus: a CEO learns the hard way that privacy is a two-way street, ICE…
- Debra Ross · 55 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 145Debra Ross spent 25 years building KidsOutAndAbout.com the old-school way – then AI turned her into a coder. We talk about her AI-powered business pivot, scaling from 52 to 160…
- AI News Avalanche Vol 6 · 42 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 144AI’s now got a taste for jazz, your chatbot’s been gossiping about you behind your back, and OpenAI hit the brakes hard enough to leave skid marks. It’s an AI news avalanche for…
- Episode Rewind: We Were Once Gentlemen · 1 h 0 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 143Raina takes the wheel again this week, rewinding to Episode 68: We Were Once Gentlemen — a dive into whether AI is dragging civility off a cliff, from deepfakes to algorithm-fed…
- Episode Rewind: Palantir · 58 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 143Raina's flying solo this week, with a rewind of Episode 110's descent into pure evil: Palantir. But first, this week's AI news — fake disasters, resume hackers, brand-new…
- The Catch-Up · 42 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 143No script, no real agenda. Just two friends catching up, sharing what’s top of mind. And obviously AI is right up there. Organic conversation. Projects, ponderings and a bit of…
- Episode Rewind: Serkan Gür · 59 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 142We're pulling this banger from the archives. Aerospace engineer turned finance guy turned DSP legend, Serkan Gür built A1 Evo, made digital signal processing must-watch YouTube…
- ChatGPT 5.6 · 47 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 142OpenAI just dropped three new models at once — but is GPT-5.6 actually smarter than Claude, or just cheaper and louder about it? Plus: Apple lawyers up against OpenAI, ChatGPT…
- Episode Rewind: Vivek Mahapatra · 1 h 15 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 141We're rewinding to Episode 118 with Salesforce exec Vivek Mahapatra — a guy who's outlasted every enterprise tech hype cycle you can name — talking agentic design and scaling AI…
- Mark Asch · 47 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 141Juilliard-trained composer, prog rock frontman, and 30-year piano teacher Mark Asch joins Up Against Reality to ask the question musicians are quietly panicking about: can AI…
- A Robot In Every Home · 39 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 140Think you have a few decades before the machines take over? Think again. It’s a chaotic race to commercialize physical AI and NVIDIA is frantically coding an OS to keep your new…
- Episode Rewind: AI Bubble (Too Big to Fail) · 54 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 139We rewind to our conversation from November 11, 2025 about whether the AI boom is becoming too big to fail. From OpenAI and NVIDIA to Wall Street speculation and the circular…
- AI IPOs · 35 min · Temporada 1 Episódio 139The tech elites swore AI was too dangerous for capitalism, right up until Wall Street waved a three-trillion-dollar check. Today we unpack the ultimate corporate sellout…
