All Too Human

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 call to reserve Nvidia’s Blackwell chips for the U.S. coul...

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 the story of the next economy unfolds — and where you learn to ...

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 Jamaica. Plus: the NBA’s gambling scandal, the NFL’s integrity p...

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 • The digital blackout exposes how fragile our online...

A sleep ring worth $11 billion says it can “change behavior.” Kala looks at the paradox of modern health tech—how innovation keeps driving prices up, not down, and what that says about who gets to live well. Send us Fan Mail Support the show

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 chapter means for All Too Human and The Press Company. Send us Fa...

Got zoning packets, substation maps, “innovation campus” flyers, or those mystery “infrastructure rider” letters? Send them to contact@itsthepress.com — 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 Colossus and Colossus 2 run on “temporary” gas turbines while the ci...

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 becoming the world’s first trillionaire reshape tech power. Add Tayl...

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: secret permits, tax breaks, diesel parks, and lobbying designed...

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, Musk suing OpenAI and Apple, Amazon settling for $2.5B, and In...

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 may depend on Silicon Valley and Washington moving in lockstep o...

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? ____ 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 First Amendment restricts government censorship, not corpor...