Ah, the wonderful world of Elon Musk. The world's richest man has a habit of surprising the world at large with new experiments and changes to his social media company X, formerly known as , and the latest might be the most brazen yet. Twitter Just this past week, Musk announced out of the blue that X would be removing users' ability to block accounts. Blocking someone is a rather basic, if not fundamental, right of internet users and it's not entirely clear exactly Musk would be achieving by removing that "feature" (emphasis Musk's, not ours), yet, here we are. what Now, before we get into the optics of removing the ability to block users, news reports have that this change will bring X into conflict with guidelines incorporated by Apple's App Store and Alphabet's Google Play. pointed out According to Reuters, both Apple and Google require apps with user-generated content (such as X) to give its users the ability to block other users. This is done to prevent someone from being harassed online or from being subjected to cyberbullying, which is all too prevalent on the internet. So far, it's not clear whether either of those app stores will remove X, though the chances of it being delisted are very unlikely. X users will still have the ability to block someone from DM'ing them and will also have the ability to "mute" someone which screens a user from seeing specified accounts but, unlike blocking, does not alert the other account to the action. Twitter ranked #13 on HackerNoon's this week. Tech Company Rankings AI Reviews, Now Coming to an Amazon Near You Well, it happened. It looks like is rolling out generative AI capabilities across customer reviews to help buyers make purchase decisions. Amazon The way it's going to work is that you could ask AI to generate a short summary of the user reviews for a product you're interested in; this is being done to presumably optimize a buyer’s experience by taking away the need togo through individual reviews (which they still can after reading the summary!) and instead, get all the information they need in a single go. The capability is going to roll out to a subset of mobile shoppers in the U.S. across a broad selection of products, Amazon said in a . statement Amazon ranked #1 on HackerNoon's this week. Tech Company Rankings 👋 You’re reading of HackerNoon's Tech Company News Brief, a weekly collection of tech goodness that combines HackerNoon's proprietary data with internet trends to determine which companies are rising and falling in the public consciousness. went live yesterday. Prefer reading the whole thing a day early AND in one go? No problemo! Just subscribe to receive the newsletter in your inbox every Tuesday. part 2 Part 1 here complete In Other News.. 📰 Adobe co-founder Dr. John Warnock has died — he was 82 — via . The Verge From Mad Men to machines? Big advertisers shift to AI — via . Reuters Microsoft Plans AI Service With Databricks That Could Hurt OpenAI — via . The Information Tesla says data breach impacting 75,000 employees was an insider job — via . TechCrunch ‘It gave us some way to fight back’: New tools aim to protect art and images from AI’s grasp — via . CNN Companies struggle to deploy AI due to high costs and confusion — via . Axios The iPhone 15 could get one of the biggest upgrades in years: A new charging port — via . CNBC And that's a wrap! Don't forget to share this newsletter with your family and friends! See y'all next week. PEACE! ☮️ — Sheharyar Khan, Editor, Business Tech @ HackerNoon All rankings are current as of Monday and may change by the time of publication. To view the latest ranking, visit HackerNoon’s . Tech Company News Pages

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