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[^3]\n\nElon Musk's AI company xAI filed a motion for a preliminary injunction with the US District Court for the District of Minnesota to prevent the enforcement of the state's new AI nude image ban. [^4]\n\nOn April 4, the US District Court for the District of Minnesota rejected xAI's application for a preliminary injunction regarding Minnesota House Bill 1606. [^5]\n\nThe API endpoint at us-east-1.api.x.ai is currently reported as experiencing an outage. [^6]\n\nxAI reported an outage affecting the Grok model service on iOS devices. [^7]\n\nAt approximately 11 AM ET, ChatGPT began returning error messages to users attempting to use the chatbot. [^8]\n\nChatGPT's status page indicated there were currently elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex. [^9]\n\nThe outage prevented users from accessing conversations, logins, file uploads, voice mode, search, deep research, and image generation on ChatGPT. [^10]\n\nAnthropic reported that Claude, its chatbot service, also presented problems for some users on September 3, 2026. [^11]\n\nThe nature of the disruptions varied, with some users finding services completely inaccessible while others experienced errors, slowness, or interruptions. 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