( July 27, 2026, 23:22 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Artificial intelligence company xAI has filed a lawsuit challenging Minnesota over a state law banning technology that allows users to create and post deepfake images of people naked without their consent. xAI claims the law is "clumsy," violates "foundational First Amendment principles," and the company already prohibits users from creating nude deepfakes without consent. "It is content-based and vastly overinclusive: it bans protected non-sexual, consensual, and non-disseminated speech that has no connection to any legitimate interest in preventing distribution of nonconsensual nude images," xAI said. "And narrower, less speech-restrictive alternatives already exist."See attached document....
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