Think 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 robotic peers from flattening you.

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Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot

Inside NVIDIA Halos for Robotics

Figure AI

Unitree Robotics

Agility Robotics

Google DeepMind and A24 AI filmmaking partnership

A24 Films

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UpAgainstReality.com

Episode link:
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We 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 economy forming around AI, we revisit whether this is the next great technological revolution, the next great bubble, or somehow both.

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Apple TV Intro made with practical effects

Xania Monet (AI-generated music artist)

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Podcast Website:
UpAgainstReality.com

Episode link:
https://upagainstreality.com/2026/06/23/episode-rewind-ai-bubble-too-big-to-fail/

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The 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 alongside killer drones, Claude Fable 5, and lawyers getting wrecked by ChatGPT.

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Visualizing one billion dollars using grains of rice | YouTube

OpenAI’s official explanation of its evolving nonprofit/for-profit structure

Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy v3.0

Google Cloud’s official TPU page

AP coverage of New York’s synthetic performer disclosure law for AI-generated ads

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Podcast Website:
UpAgainstReality.com

Episode link:
https://upagainstreality.com/2026/06/16/ai-ipos/

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Data centers had their moment — last week, actually. This week we’re talking about the other side: local LLMs, the Mac Mini as an accidental AI powerhouse, and why “just run it yourself” is suddenly a real answer.

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Tone Match Lab | Larry’s vibe-coded audio processing web app

Beer Saloon | Larry’s Codex-coded “Tapper” style game

LM Studio

Ollama

Qwen models

Gemma Models

Hugging Face

OpenAI Codex

Anthropic Claude

Room EQ Wizard

Dirac speaker calibration

Running AI Agents Locally = Safe? Think Again | YouTube

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Podcast Website:
UpAgainstReality.com

Episode link:
https://upagainstreality.com/2026/06/09/local-llms/

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They built the future in your backyard, signed an NDA with your mayor, and sent you the water bill. This week we force open the windowless boxes at the center of everything: data centers.

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Kan Jam | Best game ever. Trust us.

IBM 2321 “Noodle Picker” storage system | Wikipedia

The ENIAC History | University of Pennsylvania

SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) & ARPANET History

Eddington | movie – official site

Virginia Is The World’s Data Center Hub | vpm.org

Two-Phase Liquid Immersion Cooling | YouTube

Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting

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Podcast Website:
UpAgainstReality.com

Episode link:
https://upagainstreality.com/2026/06/02/data-centers/

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We’re unpacking everything from Google I/O and why their head of AI says we’re standing in the “foothills of the singularity.” Plus, an all-AI feature film crashes Cannes, Barnes & Noble’s massive PR bonfire, and the Pope teaming up with an AI startup at the Vatican. Wait, what?

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Google I/O 2026

Google I/O 2026 announcements collection

100 things announced at Google I/O 2026

Google I/O 2026 keynote

Demis Hassabis and John Jumper Nobel Prize / AlphaFold

song.link | smart link tool for music and podcasts

Hell Grind | Official trailer for AI-generated feature film

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Podcast Website:
UpAgainstReality.com

Episode link:
https://upagainstreality.com/2026/05/26/google-i-o-2026/

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99.9% of every species that ever existed is extinct. This week, we explore Max Tegmark’s twelve AI future scenarios and ask how artificial superintelligence, failed alignment, surveillance, automation, and human self-destruction could bring the human era to an end.

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

MIT Explains the 12 Possible Endings for AI | YouTube

Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

AI Aftermath Scenarios — Future of Life Institute

What does AI do when no one is watching? | YouTube

Statement on AI Risk — Center for AI Safety

1961 Goldsboro B-52 Crash | Wikipedia

Vasily Arkhipov | Wikipedia

The Underwater Cuban Missile Crisis at 60 | National Security Archive

Stanislav Petrov | Wikipedia

1983 Soviet Nuclear False Alarm Incident | Wikipedia

PODCAST INFO:

Podcast Website:
UpAgainstReality.com

Episode link:
https://upagainstreality.com/2026/05/19/12-ways-ai-ends-the-human-era/

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Jim DeWitt joins us to talk AI agents, portable brains, and why the future of intelligence might need an owner’s manual. Meanwhile: Spotify’s getting weirder, Hollywood’s panicking, and the AI gold rush just hit another absurd milestone. Business as unusual.

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Evenrail | Jim DeWitt

MemPalace | Open-source AI memory system

Open Brain | Nate Jones

AI Second Brain | Matt Wolfe YouTube

Obsidian

Coffee Roaster Instruction Manual Rock Song | SUNO

LawrenceBentley.com | Larry’s Codex-coded website

PODCAST INFO:

Podcast Website:
UpAgainstReality.com

Episode link:
https://upagainstreality.com/2026/05/12/jim-dewitt/

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