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Casey Newton
Host of Hard Fork. Casey Newton appears in 65 indexed conversations across Hard Fork. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
How Based is Grok 3? + Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on Markets For Everything + Vibecoding 101
Kevin RooseCasey NewtonVlad Tenev
Grok 3 is competitive and cheaper at $40 a month, but its X-data access has not yet created a clear product or research moat. xAI’s rapid, billion-dollar Colossus build shows capital and infrastructure can buy frontier capacity, while Robinhood’s tokenization and prediction-market expansion faces unresolved regulation and speculation risks.Robinhood, valued at $52.2 billion at recording, is pursuing tokenized private assets and prediction markets, with disclosure tiers and CFTC scrutiny testing whether access expands beyond speculation.