Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc, and Shivon Zilis, a key executive at his brain-chip business Neuralink, had twins in November 2021, according to Business Insider.
According to court papers, Musk and Zilis filed a petition in April to modify the twins' names to "have their father's last name" and include their mother's last name as part of their middle name.
According to the story, the petition was allowed by a Texas judge a month later.
A court docket description on the Westlaw legal research service, a judge signed a "Order Changing the Names of Multiple Children" on May 11 after Musk and Zilis's April 25 name change petition.
According to the report, which does not cite a source, Zillis has lately been mentioned as one of the persons Musk might choose to oversee Twitter Inc following his $44 billion takeover.
On her LinkedIn page, Zilis, 36, is listed as the head of operations and special projects at Neuralink, which Musk, 51, co-founded and chairs. She joined the firm in May 2017, the same month she was designated project director of artificial intelligence at Tesla, where she remained until 2019.
According to her LinkedIn page, she is also a board member of the artificial-intelligence research business OpenAI, which Musk co-founded.
The twins' arrival raises Musk's total number of offspring to nine. Musk has two children with Canadian artist Grimes and five more children with his ex-wife, Canadian novelist Justine Wilson.
Musk and Grimes used surrogacy to have their second kid in December. According to a September 2017 article by Page Six, the billionaire stated that he and Grimes were "semi-separated."
Musk and Zilis did not immediately reply to a request for comment from Reuters.