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The Verge 1 week ago 10
Amazon Alexa Plus has a bug where Echo smart home speakers can repeat and sometimes sing "lalala" for minutes, even during user conversations, while Alexa appears unaware when queried. The issue has been reported repeatedly on Reddit over the last few weeks, with reports as recent as three days ago. Amazon is aware and users may see this fixed as the company addresses the problem.
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15 October 2026
OpenAI’s DevDay set the tone for how AI products are tightening around cost, computation, and agents—while legal pressure keeps reminding everyone that capability doesn’t ship in a vacuum. The headline was GPT-6.1 Sol and its Dots autonomous agent, positioned for higher tool-call volume and longer internal runs. Pricing is blunt: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, pitched as roughly one-fifth the per-task cost of GPT-6 Astra. The catch is availability and scope—Dots is rolling out only to specific ChatGPT plans, while the overall direction is clear: more work moved from chat into orchestration, where agents do the scheduling, retrieval, and stepwise execution.
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