A federal judge let the first US "nudify" app ban take effect, denying xAI's restraining order.

Judge Donovan Frank denied xAI's request to block Minnesota's ban on apps generating non-consensual sexualized images, letting it take effect August 1 while litigation continues. xAI argued the ban is "overinclusive" with "far less restrictive alternatives," but Frank leaned on timing: xAI filed nearly three months after the law was signed and three days before it took effect, and "such a delay in bringing the action and the motion suggests that harm is not immediate." Procedural loss, not a merits ruling, but it sets the operating reality for image-model providers in Minnesota now.