xAI staff: send one-page summary of last four weeks

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: September 16, 2025 (Sent Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 16, 2025)
To:: All xAI employees

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Send a one-page summary of what you've accomplished in the past four weeks and what you intend to accomplish in the next four weeks. This is due by noon on Thursday.

About this email

Days after xAI laid off hundreds of data annotators, Musk orders every xAI employee to send a one-page summary of what they accomplished in the past four weeks and plan for the next four, due within 48 hours.

Notes

CNN quotes the instruction in two fragments ('send a one page summary...' and 'This is due by noon on Thursday'); the joined wording follows Storyboard18's rendering. Any further text of the email was not published.

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Leaked to press; attribution widely reported.

xAI, company-wide memo. Tags: performance, accountability, xai, layoffs

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