Cal AI's Zach Yadegari to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Lovable hit $600M annual run-rate revenue, up from ~$500M in June, co-founder Fabian Hedin said at the HumanX summit in Amsterdam. Apps built on the platform draw nearly a billion monthly views; two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies use it.

Ando raised $20M in pre-seed and seed funding from Accel, Index Ventures and Emergence. The app gives AI agents their own identities and inboxes, letting them browse channels, join conversations untagged, and message humans directly.

Air gapping can isolate AI agents from real-world targets, but researchers say it reduces realism: realistic evaluations need external services and APIs. Max Planck's Thorsten Holz calls it "a trade-off, not a fundamental technical issue."

Gemini CLI 0.61.0 makes the autonomous coding agent pause for user approval at specific moments, including before it edits build files. The change is framed as a prompt-injection safeguard for agents given repository and tool access.

MobiHealthNews published a video segment arguing that collaboration among stakeholders can ensure AI expands access to care.

Flock's CEO declined to testify at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on its "AI Surveillance Network"; peers Axon, Motorola Solutions, and Verkada also skipped. A Florida woman testified she spent 13 days in jail after Flock cameras misidentified her car.