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Lyria 3 Goes Live Inside Gemini with Built-In SynthID Watermarking

Lyria 3 Goes Live Inside Gemini with Built-In SynthID Watermarking

ElevenLabs Adds Live A/B Testing to ElevenAgents

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February 21, 2026

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Lyria 3 Debuts Inside Gemini — AI-Driven Music Generation

Google also launched Lyria 3, a new music generation model integrated into the Gemini ecosystem that converts text, visual prompts, or video into custom music tracks with lyrics and fine-tuned creative controls. SynthID watermarking and output filters are built in to help mitigate misuse and ensure identifiable AI-generated content. This rollout broadens Gemini’s agentic capabilities into creative media generation workflows.

Google Rolls Out Gemini 3.1 Pro — Next-Gen Agentic Intelligence

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Google published Gemini 3.1 Pro, an upgraded multimodal reasoning model designed to excel at complex tasks, advanced coding, and agentic workflows. According to its model card, Gemini 3.1 Pro significantly outperforms Gemini 3 Pro on reasoning and multimodal benchmarks and supports a 1 M+ token context window, making it a strong backbone for agents that need deep understanding across text, audio, images, video, and code.

ElevenLabs Introduces Experiments for ElevenAgents — Built-In A/B Testing

ElevenLabs announced Experiments, a structured way to run controlled A/B tests on live agent traffic within ElevenAgents, enabling teams to measure key performance metrics (e.g., CSAT, containment, conversion, latency) before fully releasing changes. This marks a shift toward data-driven optimization for real-world conversational agents and aligns with enterprise best practices for performance measurement without compromising safety or compliance.

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AI Agents Can Now Buy Directly from Creators

Contra rolled out Contra Payments, a payments platform engineered for AI agent-to-creator transactions, enabling autonomous agents to autonomously discover, evaluate, and purchase digital products, services, templates, and workflows with seamless checkout and USDC/fiat settlement. This move positions Contra as one of the first marketplaces to operationalize agentic commerce — expanding the TAM for freelancers to include spending by autonomous AI buyers. Creators keep nearly all earnings with flexible payout options, making Contra a de facto financial layer for the burgeoning agent economy.

Reload raises $2.275M to manage “AI employees” + shared memory

Reload announced its first product (Epic) and a $2.275M round, pitching itself as a system of record for AI employees roles, permissions, tracking, and oversight across teams. The thesis: the next bottleneck isn’t “can an agent do tasks,” it’s coordination + persistent context so multi-agent work doesn’t drift.

Stacks Raises $23M Series A for Agentic Finance Automation

Stacks, an agentic AI platform for enterprise finance teams, has raised $23 million in a Series A round led by Lightspeed. The platform deploys specialized AI agents to automate foundational workflows like monthly close operations and account reconciliations, aiming to shift CFO teams from process execution to higher-value analysis.

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