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Y Combinator says Apple’s App Store has hindered startup growth

Y Combinator says Apple’s App Store has hindered startup growth

Y Combinator has filed an amicus brief in the ongoing legal battle between Apple and Epic Games, arguing that the App Store has stifled startup innovation. We’ve reached out to legal reps for YC and Apple for comment. The brief comes during the years-long legal dispute. Epic Games first filed an antitrust lawsuit against the iPhone maker in 2020 in …

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Why a Y Combinator startup tackling AI agents for Windows gave up and pivoted

Why a Y Combinator startup tackling AI agents for Windows gave up and pivoted

A startup called Pig.dev that participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch was working on a potentially revolutionary idea: AI agentic tech to control a Microsoft Windows desktop. But in May, the founder announced he was abandoning the tech and pivoting his company to something entirely different: Muscle Mem, a cache system for AI agents that allows them to offload …

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