Shivon Zilis announces split from Musk
What happened
On 3 October 2026, Shivon Zilis announced on X that she and Elon Musk have split. According to The Verge, she has four children with Musk and previously served on OpenAI's board. The report says she testified in this year's trial in Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman that she worked for Musk's "entire AI empire", spanning Tesla, Neuralink and OpenAI. The development so far is that the split was announced by Zilis herself, with no further response from the parties involved.
Written by AI from the reports · updated 14 d ago
Timeline
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- The Verge · AIBreaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to do
In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of her four children, Elon Musk, had broken up on X. To do so, she quote-tweeted a post from "Big Tech Alert," an account that, among other things, monitors what accounts are following and unfollowing each other.