Spam in the decentralized network: A spam attack occurring on Bluesky's network on May 11 that involved a flood of posts reading "Remember to always vote Trump" was found to have originated on the social networking protocol Nostr. Read more
TikTok is pulling out all the stops: TikTok doesn't want to be banned in the United States, so it announced a new platform called TikTok Change Makers Program that includes 50 global creators who "create a positive impact on and beyond the platform." Read more
Spotify's "Listening Party" is a flop so far: Billie Eilish hosted a Listening Party for her top fans (who were selected based on Spotify data) on May 17 to celebrate her latest album, "Hit Me Hard and Soft." It was a decent turnout, with 2,500 users in attendance. The Listening Party experience was a mixed bag. Read more
Pinecone for all: Pinecone completely rearchitected its product to launch Pinecone Serverless, which frees its customers from having to think about managing their deployments and scaling them. Today, Pinecone serverless comes out of beta and is now generally available. Read more
What happened at Microsoft's Build: Build is Microsoft's largest developer conference, and of course it's all about AI this year. Here are some of the takeaways:
GitHub Copilot gets extensions
Microsoft's Power Automate no-code platform adds AI flows
Microsoft intros a Copilot for teams
Microsoft upgrades its AI app-building platforms
Creating the "food as medicine" category with Ashley Tyrner from FarmboxRX: This week on Found, we talk with the CEO and founder of FarmboxRX about bootstrapping, working with health plans, and becoming the first produce-as-a-prescription company. Listen here
