CoComelon studio Moonbug partners with the Center for Scholars & Storytellers at UCLA to Bring Child Development Research into Online Video for Kids

New research-backed learning principles to be applied across Moonbug’s flagship series, including CoComelon, Blippi, and Little Angel and their spin-offs /PRNewswire/ — Moonbug Entertainmenta global…

Poke makes AI agents as easy as sending a text |

Is Poke an OpenClaw for the rest of us? That’s the idea coming from a new startup offering an AI agent that you can access…

Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’ |

Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia almost missed the email telling him that he was the 2026 recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing. “Yeah,…

Final 3 days to save up to $500 on your Disrupt 2026 pass |

Youdon’tattendTechCrunch Disruptto sit in the audience. You go to gain leverage.Whether 2026 is a build, fundraise, hire, or scale year, this is where momentum compounds.…

VC Eclipse has a new $1.3B fund to back — and build — ‘physical AI’ startups |

It takes just a skim of Eclipse’s recent investments to see where this venture firm’s interests lie — and where it is headed. The Palo…

I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee |

2:35 PM PDT · April 7, 2026 Arcee, a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a massive, 400B-parameter open source LLM on a $20 million…

Hermeus raises $350M to build unmanned hypersonic fighters |

Defense startup Hermeus has raised $350 million to keep developing what it calls the “fastest unmanned aircraft,” in a funding round that has pushed its…

Why a former AirPods engineer is now building heat pumps |

In 2022, California announced that it wanted to install 6 million heat pumps by 2030. So far, it has only installed about 2.3 million, which…

4 days left to save close to $500 on Disrupt 2026 passes |

We’re down to 4 days left to save up to $482 on yourTechCrunch Disrupt 2026pass. These low rateswilldisappear on April 10 at 11:59 p.m. PT.…

AI startup Rocket offers vibe McKinsey-style reports at a fraction of the cost |

Indian startup Rocket is betting that the next big opportunity is the part before the vibe coding: having AI help people decide what to build.…