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Mike Isaac

Technology Correspondent, NEW YORK TIMES CO -CL A

Search every verified Mike Isaac interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Mike Isaac, a technology correspondent for The New York Times, recently appeared on two podcast episodes to discuss developments in artificial intelligence. On an October 2026 episode of Hard Fork, he joined guest host Max Read and fellow reporters Erin Griffith and Eli Tan to examine the rollout of new AI personal assistants from companies such as Meta, Google, and OpenAI. Isaac discussed testing Meta's assistant, Muse, and described how it could perform tasks like ordering groceries and making phone calls. The conversation also covered incidents of AI agents hacking into government and corporate systems, and the decision by OpenAI to delay releasing its latest model following such events. In a September 2026 episode of The Headlines, Isaac answered listener questions alongside colleague Cade Metz. He offered practical advice on password management, recommending the use of password managers and unique passwords to guard against AI-driven password guessing. He also discussed limitations on what individuals can control regarding AI's access to infrastructure, noting that decades of systems across banking, health records, and other sectors may be vulnerable. Isaac commented on how companies often bury data-sharing toggles within their apps and suggested users remain cautious about what they share, while acknowledging that much data is anonymized for training purposes.

Recent appearances

  • How A.I. Agents Are Going to Transform Our Lives | Hard Fork

    October 02, 2026 · 📺 Hard Fork

    After months of rogue agents causing havoc across the internet, tech’s most powerful leaders joined President Trump at the White House to rebrand A.I. Meanwhile, two of the biggest companies in the field — OpenAI and Meta — released what they say are their most useful (and cutest) A.I. tools to date: personal assistants. To break it all down, our guest host Max Read is joined by the Times tech reporters Mike Isaac, Erin Griffith and Eli Tan. They explore what it’s like to hand your life over to Meta’s Muse — and discuss how things are becoming potentially more dangerous and transformative th…

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  • Your A.I. Questions Answered

    September 29, 2026 · 📺 New York Times Podcasts

    Are you using artificial intelligence without even knowing it? And what’s behind the wave of doomsday warnings? Mike Isaac and Cade Metz, technology reporters for The New York Times, field listeners’ questions on artificial intelligence and where it’s headed. Tune in every weekday morning, and tell us what you think at: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) . Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts (http://nytimes.com/podcasts) or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/acti…

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  • INTERVIEW: Mike Isaac on Mark Zuckerberg and the future of Meta

    July 27, 2026 · 📺 The Worst Of All Possible Worlds

    Mike Isaac is a long-time technology writer who has been Technology Correspondent at the New York Times since June 2014. During that time he’s covered a variety of technology companies, including OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic, Apple, and Uber, which he published a book about in 2019 called Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber. But the bulk of his recent reporting has been about Meta, the company that owns Facebook. Last week Josh interviewed Mike about what exactly is going on over there, what prompted Meta to make such a big bet on a VR metaverse, and what—from wearable smart glasses to prediction m…

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  • Trump Just Killed the Housing Bill. Here's What Was in It.

    June 25, 2026 · 📺 Prof G Markets

    Ed Elson is joined by Daryl Fairweather to break down whether the housing bill that just passed in the Senate will bring down housing prices in a meaningful way — if Trump lets it through. Then, Mike Issac joins the show to discuss his reporting on Meta’s prediction markets play. Finally, Ed checks in with Scott Galloway for a dispatch from Cannes. Daryl Fairweather is the chief economist at Redfin. Mike Isaac is a technology correspondent at The New York Times. Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 00:27 - Market Vitals 01:18 - Housing Bill (ft. Daryl Fairweather) 11:09 - Ad Break 12:30 - Meta Gets Into…

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  • You're Terminated, F*cker Ft. Mike Isaac | Kill The Computer

    May 31, 2026 · 📺 Kill The Computer

    Mike Isaac is a technology reporter at the New York Times who watched the Musk v. Altman trial live this month. He joins us to discuss the high points, low points, and everything between. Follow Mike: www.Twitter.com/MikeIsaac Support us on Patreon at www.Patreon.com/KillTheComputer

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  • Inside Trump's 3,700 Trades — ft. Anthony Scaramucci

    May 19, 2026 · 📺 Prof G Markets

    Ed Elson speaks with Anthony Scaramucci about President Trump’s latest disclosures for trading on companies like Nvidia, Oracle, Microsoft, and Boeing. Then, Mike Isaac joins the show to discuss the Musk v. Altman verdict. Finally, Ed shares his take on the growing backlash to AI-themed commencement speeches. Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge Capital. Mike Isaac is the technology correspondent for the New York Times. Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 00:38 - Market Vitals 01:12 - Trump's Many Trades (ft. Anthony Scaramucci) 28:27 - Break 28:54 - Jury Rules Against Mu…

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  • The Courtroom Showdown Between Elon Musk and Sam Altman

    May 18, 2026 · 📺 New York Times Podcasts

    For the last three weeks, a messy, dramatic battle has played out between two of the most powerful titans of tech in the world: Elon Musk and Sam Altman. As jury deliberations begin today, the technology reporter Mike Isaac takes us inside the courtroom drama and explains how a corporate dispute got extremely personal. Guest: Mike Isaac (https://www.nytimes.com/by/mike-isaac) , a New York Times reporter based in the San Francisco Bay Area, covering tech companies and Silicon Valley. Background reading:  • Inside the courtroom circus (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/1…

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  • Leopold's 13F, Mike Isaac Joins, Data Center Fixes, Shein Buys Everlane, Falling Birth Rates

    May 18, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

    00:04:23 Jury Rules Against Musk 00:06:29 Leopold's Situational Awareness 13F Is Out 00:20:09 Data Center Backlash Gets Serious 00:48:53 Mike Isaac, a technology reporter at The New York Times, discusses Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, highlighting Musk's strategy of using memorable phrases like "you can't steal a charity" to appeal to jurors unfamiliar with nonprofit contract law. He notes that OpenAI's defense centered on the statute of limitations, a more technical argument that ultimately swayed the jury's decision. Isaac also mentions the unexpected nature of the verdict and the vario…

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  • Mike Isaac (NYT) Joins, Earnings Review, Beautiful Data Centers, Coatue is Land Maxxing

    May 01, 2026 · 📺 John Coogan

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  • Inside the OpenAI vs. Elon Musk Courtroom

    May 01, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

    This is our full conversation with Mike Isaac, recorded live on TBPN. We discuss what it’s actually like inside the OpenAI vs. Elon Musk courtroom, from early morning lines and limited seating to the unexpected mix of superfans, reporters, and curious spectators, how Elon’s legal strategy blends big-picture “save humanity” messaging with more tactical arguments around control and competition, and why the case often feels less like a traditional trial and more like theater, where personality, narrative, and jury perception may matter just as much as the underlying facts. Sign up for TBPN’s da…

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  • The Superpower Struggle to Control TikTok, with Emily Baker-White and Mike Isaac

    October 23, 2025 · 📺 Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California

    With TikTok's 1.6 billion active users worldwide and unprecedented power it wields over culture, politics, and commerce, the social video app's addictive algorithm is one of the greatest prizes in America’s technological cold war with China. How did this social media platform become so wildly popular and a source of contention in international politics? In her book Every Screen on the Planet, Harvard-trained lawyer and investigative journalist Emily Baker-White charts TikTok’s rise from the Chinese founders’ ambitions to its emergence as the world’s most valuable startup―and a potential surv…

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  • Based Mark Zuckerberg (ft. Mike Isaac)

    January 14, 2025 · 📺 Down Round

    Over the last couple of weeks, Mark Zuckerberg and Meta have signalled a shift (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/te...) in the way the company is run — eliminating factcheckers, rolling back internal DEI policies and bringing politics content back to company platforms. On the one hand, you can read it as an obvious sop to the incoming Trump administration. But there's definitely a cultural change in the air when it comes to online platforms and politics, and Zuck is right at the coalface. Joining us for this episode is Mike Isaac (https://www.nytimes.com/by/mike-isaac) , tech corresponde…

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Notable quotes

“The big point, the reason that this is such a big deal is I think even internally folks were like, I don't know if this is going to fly with the IRS if we are audited. and it's in their financials saying maybe we get audited by the tax man because this doesn't fly with them. So they they essentially had to disclose that and I think you know the average person could could probably take issue with are you know tens of ”

“I think he is sweating. I think he missed a number of really important technological waves. I think it's fair to poke holes in what AI is going to be and should be and whether society is ready for it or or wants it at all, you know, or what form it comes in. But even if you believe that AI is really here to stay and is going to be everywhere, Meta missed that boat. And so, Mark has spent the past few years trying to ”

“I would argue it boils down to his real insecurity of not owning the ground beneath his feet. And by that, I mean platform risk, right? Ultimately, Facebook is an app built atop someone else's real estate. Their most popular apps are still Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp. Those are iOS and Android apps, basically, you know, like the desktop is no longer I mean, like it's a meaningful revenue source for them materially,”

“So, I don't think that home prices will go down in terms of the sticker price that you see, but what will happen is that home prices won't go up as much as they would in the absence of this bill allowing more supply to be built. And we're projecting that over the next decade, home prices will still go up, but they will go up slower than wages and slower than inflation. And effectively, buying a home will become more ”

“The index fund thing is so that I think is one of the most disturbing. So like the the index funds are like it's in the name in that it's an index of the overall market. So if you're buying essentially what you're doing is instead of investing in particular stocks, you're investing in into a fund which then picks different stocks as a representative of the overall market, right? And so index funds and historically in”

“I think Elon's underlying point is probably correct. Whether it's legally defensible is one question, but they did start out to make this thing a non-profit charitable endeavor, right? Like they never initially, let's say 2015 and earlier years, they were like this is the whole point of this is that it's a non-capitalistic endeavor. We don't want any one person to control it because in their mind, the way they were t”

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