{"id":22991,"date":"2026-05-07T07:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/shivon-zilis-mother-of-four-of-elon-musks-children-testifies-in-openai-trial\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T07:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:37:17","slug":"shivon-zilis-mother-of-four-of-elon-musks-children-testifies-in-openai-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/shivon-zilis-mother-of-four-of-elon-musks-children-testifies-in-openai-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Shivon Zilis, mother of four of Elon Musk\u2019s children, testifies in OpenAI trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zilis, an executive at Musk\u2019s brain implant startup Neuralink, served on OpenAI\u2019s board from 2020 to 2023<\/p>\n<p>Shivon Zilis, a Neuralink executive and the mother of four of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s children, took the stand on Wednesday as one of the most highly anticipated witnesses in Musk\u2019s case against OpenAI. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/chatgpt\">ChatGPT<\/a> maker has argued that, while Zilis worked with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/openai\">OpenAI<\/a> from 2016 to 2023, she was also involved in a secret relationship with Musk, acting as an informant for him.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/29\/elon-musk-openai-sam-altman-lawsuit\">case against OpenAI<\/a> alleges that the company\u2019s CEO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/sam-altman\">Sam Altman<\/a>, and president, Greg Brockman, co-founders of the company with Musk, broke a founding agreement when they restructured it from a non-profit to a for-profit enterprise. The Tesla CEO accuses Altman and Brockman of unjustly enriching themselves and wants both removed from their positions at the startup, one of the most valuable in the world. He is also seeking the undoing of the for-profit restructuring and $134bn in damages to be redistributed to OpenAI\u2019s non-profit arm.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/06\/shivon-zilis-testimony-elon-musk-openai-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f222d1c4f28560087c5d72edd603b477299de542\/203_0_1987_1590\/master\/1987.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bd7b9690862f8318239e3bead16a2443\" title=\"Shivon Zilis, mother of four of Elon Musk\u2019s children, testifies in OpenAI trial\" \/>Zilis, an executive at Musk\u2019s brain implant startup Neuralink, served on OpenAI\u2019s board from 2020 to 2023<br \/>\nShivon Zilis, a Neuralink executive and the mother of four of Elon Musk\u2019s children, took the stand on Wednesday as one of the most highly anticipated witnesses in Musk\u2019s case against OpenAI. The ChatGPT maker has argued that, while Zilis worked with OpenAI from 2016 to 2023, she was also involved in a secret relationship with Musk, acting as an informant for him.<br \/>\nMusk\u2019s case against OpenAI alleges that the company\u2019s CEO, Sam Altman, and president, Greg Brockman, co-founders of the company with Musk, broke a founding agreement when they restructured it from a non-profit to a for-profit enterprise. The Tesla CEO accuses Altman and Brockman of unjustly enriching themselves and wants both removed from their positions at the startup, one of the most valuable in the world. He is also seeking the undoing of the for-profit restructuring and $134bn in damages to be redistributed to OpenAI\u2019s non-profit arm. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zilis, an executive at Musk\u2019s brain implant startup Neuralink, served on OpenAI\u2019s board from 2020 to 2023 Shivon Zilis, a Neuralink executive and the mother of four of Elon Musk\u2019s children, took the stand on Wednesday as one of the most highly anticipated witnesses in Musk\u2019s case against OpenAI. The ChatGPT maker has argued that, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/shivon-zilis-mother-of-four-of-elon-musks-children-testifies-in-openai-trial\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shivon Zilis, mother of four of Elon Musk\u2019s children, testifies in OpenAI trial<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22991"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}