{
  "id": 12364031,
  "title": "Amazon Alexa Plus keeps creepily singing ‘lalala’ for minutes on end",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/amazon-alexa-plus-keeps-creepily-singing-lalala-for-minutes-on-end",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-06T10:53:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
    "slug": "the-verge",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/1005342/amazon-alexa-plus-keeps-creepily-singing-lalala-for-minutes-on-end"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An unsettling Alexa Plus bug has seen some Amazon Echo smart home speakers reduced to saying - and sometimes singing - nothing but \"lalala\" on repeat for minutes at a time, often in the middle of conversations with users. When quizzed about the behavior, Alexa is apparently entirely unaware of what it's been doing. The […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}