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Musk's X platform and Grok back up again after widespread outage

Elon Musk's social media platform X experienced outages for more than an hour in several countries on Friday. AI chatbot Grok, which is also owned by Musk, was also affected.

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Outages hit Musk's X platform and AI chatbot Grok worldwide

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