All Too Human with Kala Hampton

Everything around us is speeding up — technology, markets, even our thoughts. But if we’re honest, most of us don’t feel faster. We feel scattered, stretched, and searching for meaning in the middle of motion.

In this episode, Kala reflects on focus — what it means, why we’ve lost it, and how it connects to the systems shaping our lives. From AI data centers and energy deals to healthcare, education, and our overstimulated brains, s...

Kala sits down for an unplanned Saturday conversation to talk directly with listeners about what’s next. The company is growing fast, the work is expanding, and the show is evolving to match. The themes you’ve loved — the rundowns, reports, and reflections — aren’t gone. They’re becoming something bigger. Kala shares why she’s simplifying the format, how she plans to keep showing up every week with intention, and what this next cha...

I hit pause yesterday—not because I had nothing to say, but because I needed to hear the room breathe. Tonight I’m telling you what I feel about America right now: a republic running a fever. We’re infected—socially, morally, informationally, even physically. Poisoned rivers and exhausted bodies. Dashboards that blind public servants while private power sees everything—a culture sprinting on a treadmill that sells us back our numbn...

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— we’re digging.

It’s a 98° night, your kid’s Chromebook is at 6%, your mom’s CPAP is humming, and across town a million-sq-ft server hall is sipping from the same grid. Who gets the next watt—your block, the NICU, or the data center?
Today, we go inside Memphis, where xAI’s...

Day six of the government shutdown and Washington’s frozen, but Silicon Valley’s on fire. Kala breaks down OpenAI’s massive new AMD deal, Jony Ive’s screen-free AI gadget that’s already hitting roadblocks, and Elon Musk’s xAI “Colossus 2” power-hungry buildout in Memphis. Plus: Intel’s cash hunt, Micron and Broadcom’s next moves, Tesla’s teased car reveal, and why the Pentagon’s missile orders are putting Lockheed Martin and RTX ba...

From Capitol gridlock to cartel strikes, Big Pharma deals to billion-dollar AI battles—this weekend is packed. Washington is still shut down, Trump is rolling out “TrumpRx” with Pfizer (and igniting a firestorm), the FDA’s abortion pill decision is shaking politics, and the president just declared the U.S. in an armed conflict with cartels. Meanwhile, NVIDIA’s chip diplomacy, OpenAI’s $500B leap, and Elon Musk’s march toward becomi...

What does it mean to lead when AI runs on chokepoints — scarce chips, fragile grids, limited water, and rules that only a few players control? In this episode of Bookmarked, we crack open Karen Hao’s Empire of AI and explore how leadership is being redefined in real time.

We’ll break down:

• Why true leadership is different from management in an AI-driven economy.
• How NVIDIA’s chip monopoly forced OpenAI’s pivot from nonprofit to fo...

At 12:01 a.m., Washington shut down. Paychecks froze, FEMA stalled, and political theater took center stage. While the headlines fixated on Capitol Hill, another story unfolded in the shadows: Big Tech’s quiet construction of AI factories — massive warehouses disguised behind shell LLCs, draining local water, straining power grids, and shifting the costs onto households.

This Pattern Report pulls back the curtain on the playbook: se...

From Wall Street fraud to Washington gridlock to trillion-dollar AI factories, the thread is the same: someone always pays. This week, startup founder Charlie Javice heads to prison after faking millions of users, Congress plays shutdown chicken while families brace for higher health costs, and Sam Altman bets 17 gigawatts on AI’s future. So who really picks up the tab — banks, taxpayers, or households already stretched thin? Kala ...

Your Monday Morning Rundown for September 29, 2025: The shutdown clock is ticking with Trump meeting Schumer and Jeffries at 3 p.m. today. The Pentagon is pressing defense contractors to ramp up missile production, Venezuela is mobilizing militias as U.S. warships patrol the Caribbean, and Marjorie Taylor Greene is breaking ranks with Trump over the Epstein files. Big Tech is throwing money around—OpenAI with CoreWeave and NVIDIA, ...

This weekend’s watchlist is packed:

– TikTok’s U.S. spinoff gets Trump’s stamp, but at a shockingly low $14B valuation. Who’s really winning here?
– Elon Musk sues OpenAI and drags Apple into the fight.
– Amazon agrees to a $2.5B FTC settlement over “dark patterns.”
– Intel scrambles for survival, asking Apple and TSMC for backup.
– Trump slaps new tariffs on drugs, furniture, and trucks—ripples ahead for pharma,...

Trump’s Golden Dome is on the clock: a trillion-dollar missile shield, three years to build it, and more than a hundred companies racing to get inside. Boeing just tapped Palantir to wire AI into its defense factories, while start-ups test tech that can track objects at 18,000 miles an hour. In today’s Bookmarked, Kala Hampton connects the rush for contracts to a deeper story Alex Karp calls the Technological Republic: how peace ma...

It’s power lunch on a Wednesday, and we’re following the pattern. Jimmy Kimmel returned to late-night — emotional, tearful, but unapologetic — while Elon Musk holed up in Palo Alto, running xAI into chaos with “truth-seeking” experiments that spiraled into praise for Hitler and broken code. Two very different stages, but they rhyme: speech bending under pressure, whether from billion-dollar networks or billionaires with too much po...

Jimmy Kimmel was yanked off air “indefinitely.” Now he’s back — but not everywhere. What does this showdown between the FCC, Disney, and local affiliates really say about free speech in America today?

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Notes for listeners: In the episode, I refer to Disney as a “private company” in the First Amendment context. To be precise: Disney is a publicly traded corporation, but the key distinction here is that it’s not the government. The...

This week opens with power colliding across politics, markets, and the press. The SEC moves to cut quarterly reporting, a Sacramento newsroom takes gunfire, Charlie Kirk’s funeral turns into a political stage, and the Pentagon pushes journalists to sign a gag order. In this Monday rundown, we connect the dots. We examine how these stories, taken together, reveal a country tightening its control and shrinking transparency.

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Uber sold freedom. Lyft sold flexibility. Now, Waymo and Tesla promise a future without drivers at all. But behind the glossy apps and trillion-dollar hype is a darker truth: Silicon Valley’s business model was never about innovation — it was about loopholes, lobbying, and offloading risk onto workers.

In this episode of All Too Human, Kala unpacks the Nashville Lyft–Waymo deal, the loophole that built Uber’s empire, Tesla’s robotax...

What do Sam Altman’s shrug, Elon Musk’s subsidies, and Microsoft’s Pentagon cloud deal all have in common? They’re not about “innovation.” They’re about war.

In this episode of All Too Human, we pull back the curtain on the new Military–AI Complex: Silicon Valley playing innocent while cashing government checks. From OpenAI’s $200 million Pentagon contract to Musk’s rocket deals, and from Trump’s grudge-driven “Screw Amazon!” moment...