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Appeals court temporarily blocks Minnesota's AI nudification law
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Minnesota AI nudification law appeal
News Oct 4, 2026
A federal appeals court temporarily halted Minnesota's AI nudification law while xAI challenges it on constitutional grounds.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit temporarily blocked Minnesota’s law restricting AI tools that generate realistic intimate images of identifiable people, Reuters reported on October 2. The injunction was granted in xAI’s ongoing constitutional challenge after a district judge had denied earlier relief. The ruling pauses enforcement for now; it does not resolve the merits of the case.