Baidu has not responded to a request for comment about the outage, which affected at least 100 cars.

Anthropic, the company behind the AI coding assistant, said it was fixing a problem blocking users.

The firm says its operations remain open but says the hack “may result in some delays”.

The company’s public stock debut is set to be one of the most valuable in history, and could make Musk the world’s first trillionaire.