Thursday 7 July 2022 03:15 PM Elon Musk to give speech at 'billionaire summer camp' - days after it was ... trends now

Elon Musk is expected to deliver the marquee address at the annual Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley Conference, where tech billionaires gather, just days after it was revealed that he fathered twins with one of his top executives tipped to take over Twitter. 

The world's richest man, 51, is slated to give the speech on Saturday at the Idaho stage referred to as the 'billionaire summer camp,' where the biggest names in tech and business come together to discuss the future of the industry. 

It's not yet clear what Musk's speech will entail as the Tesla CEO is set to close on his $44 billion Twitter takeover on October after a judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking to halt the deal. 

The takeover, however, has been stirred in renewed controversy after it's been floated that Shivon Zilis, 36, a top executive at Musk's Neuralink AI company, would be leading Twitter amid revelations that she had twins with him last November. 

The news of the twins broke after court records revealed Musk and Zilis filed a petition in April to change the twins' names in order to 'have their father's last name and contain their mother's last name as part of their middle name,' Insider reported.

Zilis, who was born in Ontario, Canada, met Musk through OpenAI, the artificial-intelligence research-and-deployment nonprofit Musk cofounded in 2015. 

She studied economics and philosophy at Yale where she also played goalie on the women's ice-hockey team.

In 2015, Zilis was on Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in the venture-capital category and in 2017, got the chance to use her AI expertise at Tesla. 

Just last year, Zilis posted a nod to Prince Harry's Silicon Valley startup with a throwback picture of the two of them from 2013 when she was asked to brief him on tech startups. 

Zilis is currently the director of operations and special projects for Neuralink, Musk's brain-machine interface company. 

The company has boasted its success in implanting company chips into monkey brains, claiming the primates were now capable of playing pong, CNN reported. 

Since then, the company has had to address concerns about its testing practice as it denied allegations of animal cruelty despite confirming earlier this year that monkey's have died as part of its testing. 

Given her impressive tech resume,  Zilis has been floated as one of the people Musk could tap to run Twitter Inc. after his $44 billion deal acquisition goes through in October. 

The most recent hurdle over the deal came in May, when a Twitter shareholder sued Musk and Morgan Stanley, which is advising Musk on the deal. 

The shareholder,  the Orlando Police Pension Fund, claimed Musk and Morgan Stanley secretly plotted the details of the deal before it became public, and also claimed Twitter's board breached 'its fiduciary duty' when they accepted Musk's deal. 

A judge in Delaware's Chancery Court dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice, meaning the shareholders can never sue with the same claims again. 

Musk has said he plans to grow Twitter by one billion users under his helm, but he has yet to official name the person who would be put in charge of the social media giant. 

It is currently unclear what his relationship is with Zilis, but the two appeared to be in amicable terms in 2020.   

At the time, Zilis posted a tweet defending Musk on his decision to move Tesla out of California over COVID-19 restrictions. 

California State Assembly member, Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, had tweeted 'F**k Elon Musk.'

Zilis responded: 'This makes me sad. No one's perfect but I've never met anyone who goes through more personal pain to fight for an inspiring future for humanity - and has done so tirelessly for decades. Everyone's entitled to their opinion but mine is that there's no one I respect and admire more.'

Zilis lived in San Francisco before buying a $4.3 million home in a gated community in Austin, Texas, last August, about five hours away from Musk's primary residence in Boca Chica, near his SpaceX's launch facility. 

The two, however, listed the same address, the Austin home, as their residence in the court documents for their twins' name change, Insider reported.  

The news of the twins' arrival brings Musk's total count of children to nine. Musk shares two children with Canadian singer Grimes, and other five kids with his ex-wife Canadian author Justine Wilson.

It's the latest in Musk's complicated personal life that includes three marriages and three divorces, including two of each with the same woman, and seven children from two long-term romances. 

Musk and Grimes welcomed their second child Exa Dark Sideræl, who goes by Y, via surrogate in December. The billionaire said that he and Grimes were 'semi-separated,' according to a report by Page Six in September last year. They have another child named X Æ A-Xii.