All Too Human

From trillion-dollar pay packages to billion-dollar cloud deals, the AI gold rush has officially gone imperial. Elon Musk’s Tesla investors are balking at his record-shattering payday, Sam Altman just signed a $38 billion pact with Amazon, and Palantir’s Alex Karp is turning government contracts into an AI war machine. Together, they’re cashing in on a revolution they claim is about “intelligence”—but really, it’s about control.

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It’s Monday, November 3rd, and the week opens with contradiction: the clocks turned back, but Washington’s still frozen.

The government shutdown hits Day 34 as Obamacare premiums surge 30%, and twenty million Americans brace for impact.

Meanwhile, Nvidia becomes the world’s first $5 trillion company — the crown jewel of an AI economy now worth more than entire nations. Elon pushes for a trillion-dollar payday.

Kala unpacks how Trump’s...

Kala Hampton joined the earnings calls, so you didn’t have to. From Apple’s record quarter to Amazon’s cloud arms race and Microsoft’s $35 billion data-center spree, here’s what executives actually said — and what they didn’t. Plus insider context on OpenAI’s circular funding loop, NVIDIA’s global chip moves, Disney vs. YouTube TV, SpaceX’s $2 billion Pentagon deal, and why Shutdown Day 31 could change the market mood overnight.

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Microsoft spends $35 billion building the infrastructure of intelligence. Meta doubles down on AI. Google beats expectations. The Fed cuts rates but warns of uncertainty. And OpenAI lays the groundwork for a $1 trillion IPO.

In The Update: Inside the Intelligence Boom, Kala breaks down how power, money, and human behavior are colliding to rewire the modern world. From markets and policy to technology and psychology, this is where th...

Recorded October 29, 2025 — the 96-year anniversary of Black Tuesday, as Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia hit record highs.

Ninety-six years after the market fell apart on Black Tuesday, every major sector just hit record highs. Apple’s flirting with $4 trillion. Nvidia just crossed $5 trillion and is hosting its AI conference in Washington. Amazon quietly turned on an $11 billion data-center city in Indiana—built exclusively for Anthro...

This week, everything connects — the markets, the military, and the media.

We break down why the Fed’s next move could shake Wall Street, how Trump’s sit-down with Xi might redraw the AI supply chain, and what Microsoft isn’t telling you about its OpenAI exposure. Then we shift to hard power — the U.S. quietly positioning forces near Venezuela under the label of “narcoterrorism” — and the Category 5 hurricane now crawling toward Jam...

This one almost didn’t make it to air. The AWS outage that darkened half the internet—Snapchat, Amazon, even our own studio software—pushed The Press Company offline until after midnight. But we’re back, and there’s a lot to cover.

Inside the Monday Morning Rundown:
 • Washington’s government shutdown enters week three, stalled over healthcare
 • U.S. strikes off Venezuela’s coast blur the line between drug war and politics<...

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 ...