Wednesday, February 18, 2026

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DeepMind

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music

Google has integrated its advanced music generation model, Lyria 3, into the Gemini app, enabling users to create 30-second musical tracks through text prompts or image inputs. This represents an expansion of Gemini's creative capabilities beyond text and image generation into audio production.

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The Gradient

After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment

The essay challenges the conventional goal-based framework for understanding rational behavior, arguing that rational agents—both human and artificial—do not operate primarily through explicit goals. Instead, the author contends that rationality emerges from aligning actions with established practices and social contexts, rather than pursuing predetermined objectives. This critique targets what the essay calls "orthogonality," the idea that an AI's intelligence level is independent of its objectives.

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