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President Trump’s administration is dismantling the Minnesota-based Somali fraud networks that looted hundreds of millions of dollars from American taxpayers.
American taxpayers deserve complete transparency. The prosecutions will continue.
Somalis are 0.37% of the Washington population on the high end.
DCYF records reflect that roughly 10% of daycare businesses list Somali as a primary language.
I find that odd.
Back in January, nobody had heard of Grok. We basically just had Grok 2 and an image gen model. To put it bluntly, we were playing catchup.
1 year later, our team has built the world's largest GPU cluster, benchmark-topping reasoning models, Grok Voice, Grok Imagine, beautiful mobile apps, X/web apps, a robust API, and more.
And we're only just getting started. Thank you all for being a part of our journey so far, and buckle up. 2026 is going to be a massive year for xAI 🚀
Starlink is beginning a significant reconfiguration of its satellite constellation focused on increasing space safety. We are lowering all @Starlink satellites orbiting at ~550 km to ~480 km (~4400 satellites) over the course of 2026. The shell lowering is being tightly coordinated with other operators, regulators, and USSPACECOM.
Lowering the satellites results in condensing Starlink orbits, and will increase space safety in several ways. As solar mininum approaches, atmospheric density decreases which means the ballistic decay time at any given altitude increases - lowering will mean a >80% reduction in ballistic decay time in solar minimum, or 4+ years reduced to a few months. Correspondingly, the number of debris objects and planned satellite constellations is significantly lower below 500 km, reducing the aggregate likelihood of collision.
Starlink satellites have extremely high reliability, with only 2 dead satellites in its fleet of over 9000 operational satellites. Nevertheless, if a satellite does fail on orbit, we want it to deorbit as quickly as possible. These actions will further improve the safety of the constellation, particularly with difficult to control risks such as uncoordinated maneuvers and launches by other satellite operators.