Amazon confirms smart speaker's laughing noises issue
Amazon has confirmed the issue where its digital assistant Alexa-enabled smart speaker randomly made laughing noises. Amazon said that it is dropping the phrase 'Alexa, laugh.' and changing it to 'Alexa, can you laugh?' as it "is less likely to have false positives". The company added Alexa will also acknowledge users' request by asking 'sure, I can laugh', before laughing.