Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis, a top executive at his brain-chip startup Neuralink, had twins in November of 2021

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In April, Musk and Zilis filed a petition to change the name of the twins to "have their father's last name" and contain their mother's last name as part of their middle name

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A month later, a Texas judge approved the petition, the report added.

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The name change petition from Musk and Zilis made on April 25 and the judge signed an "Order Changing the Names Of Multiple Children" on May 11

36 years Zilis has been working as director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, according to her LinkedIn Profile.

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She started working at the company in May 2017, the same month she was named a project director in artificial intelligence at Tesla, where she worked until 2019.

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She also serves as a board member at artificial-intelligence research firm OpenAI, which was co-founded by Musk, according to her profile on LinkedIn.

Image Credit: USA Today

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Musk shares two children with Canadian singer Grimes, and other five kids with his ex-wife Canadian author Justine Wilson.

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