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🌟 What’s New This Week 🌟 

⚖️ The DOJ is pursuing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple for stymying competition and inhibiting innovation in the smartphone market.

💬 Microsoft brought on Inflection AI cofounders Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan, and some staffers, to run their AI operations.

😯 Michael Seibel, the longtime Managing Director at Y Combinator, announced his resignation.

🤖 Now that Reddit has reached the IPO milestone, it may need to spend more money on and direct more labor toward moderating its content.

🌱 Louisa, an NYC-based AI-powered platform that helps make serendipitous deals and revenue come to fruition, raised $5M in seed funding.

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📚 Dive A Little Bit Deeper 📚

🏷️ (DON’T) FORGET ABOUT THE PRICE TAG — Sorry to put that 2011 earworm in your head, but when it comes to pricing product integrations for your startup, it is all about the price tags you put on them.

📈 SCALE TO SUCCESS — Everyone talks about exciting launches and disruptive growth in startup land, but what about steady scaling? It may not result in instant gratification but has massive returns when implemented strategically. 

🧼 WASH YOUR HANDS, NOT YOUR AI CLAIMS — You’ve heard of greenwashing. Well, now there’s AI-washing. Coined by the SEC Chair, this term serves as a warning to startups who make lofty, misleading declarations about AI in their business models.

🪴 AGTECH IS BACK, BABY — The sun is shining down on agricultural technology (agtech) startups. Read McKinsey & Company’s in-depth analysis on the capital drought that has plagued the sector, and how investors and startups should take advantage of this its recent bounceback.

⚡️ Question for the Community ⚡️

Results from last week’s poll

Most of the TechDay Express community chose Startup Savant as their podcast of choice. Indie Hackers sadly received zero votes as anyone’s favorite. Too underground for y’all?