Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI nudification technology took effect August 1, after a federal judge denied Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company a last-minute stay, and within days, three new lawsuits from a UK lawmaker, an Arkansas family, and five children joined the legal front against Grok Imagine. U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank denied xAI's TRO request on July 31, allowing HF 1606 to take effect on schedule. The ruling did not touch constitutional arguments, focusing instead on timing, with Judge Frank writing that xAI filed the motion on July 29, 2026, nearly three months after the law was signed, and only three days before it was set to take effect. xAI filed its lawsuit on July 27, 2026, nearly three months after Gov. Tim Walz signed HF 1606 into law on May 6. Frank converted the motion into a preliminary injunction request and set a hearing for August 19 at 9:30 a.m. ET at the Warren E. Burger Federal Building in St. Paul. Attorney General Keith Ellison must file opposition by August 12; xAI's reply brief is due August 17. xAI has restricted Grok Imagine's image-editing features for users in Minnesota, citing the law's $500,000-per-incident civil penalty structure. HF 1606 prohibits anyone who owns or controls a website, application, software, or other