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How to talk to AI without annoying everyone

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By Joanna Stern Verified
| NBC News Verified
Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore Twombly, waiting for his AI companion, Samantha, to load, in Spike Jonze's 2013 film "Her."Annapurna Pictures / Alamy Aug. 20, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT I believe all “Her” references are officially trite, except for the one I’m about to make. In the 2013 movie, Joaquin Phoenix’s character, Theodore, walks around the city talking to Samantha, his AI companion, through a tiny earpiece.
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Nobody wants to hear you talk to AI

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By Joanna Stern Verified
| New Things with Joanna Stern
Good morning! We’ve set a New Things world record: Wednesday’s feature video is actually out before lunch. Please alert Guinness. More below on a very 2026 problem: Companies want us talking to AI bots. Humanity would prefer not to hear it. So now there’s tech that can hear whispers and conceal our voices. Especially timely after this week’s AirPods-with-cameras leak and Apple’s increasingly obvious plans to turn AirPods into an AI device.
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I Bricked my phone to break my scrolling habit

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By Joanna Stern Verified
| New Things with Joanna Stern
I’ve officially run out of ways to greet you on a summer Friday. Happy Friday? We made it? Anyway, I hope you can unplug early today. I’ve been doing a surprising amount of unplugging over summer weekends, thanks to the Brick—the first thing I’ve tried that has actually kept me off social media for days at a time. More on that below. Then Instagzam’s new logo (not a typo) and an Old Thing from 1965 that still works today.
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