Breaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to do
Shivon Zilis, a high-level executive at Neuralink, announced the end of her relationship with Elon Musk via social media. The report details the public nature of their split and the complex professional and personal history between the two.
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The intersection of high-profile personal relationships and the governance of influential tech companies continues to draw significant public and media scrutiny.
In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of four of her 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. That post noted Musk was no longer following her on X. It was also sponsored by Kalshi, because everything in this relationship is totally fucking cursed, dude.
In her statement, Zilis wrote, “It’s hard to go from in love to let go in a week with no warning, but that’s just how it is sometimes.”
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