Elon Musk has confirmed he recently had a third baby with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis, who works for his brain implant company.

Musk, 52, was accused of keeping the birth of the child - his 12th overall - a secret, after news of the birth was made public through media reports. ‘As for “secretly fathered,” that is also false. All our friends and family know. Failure to issue a press release, which would be bizarre, does not mean “secret”‘, Musk said to Page Six, about the birth. The baby, believed to have been born earlier this year, was mentioned for the first time in a report by Bloomberg entitled ‘Elon Wants You to Have More Babies’.

The billionaire businessman says there was never any intention to keep it under wraps, but that putting out a press release would also have been ‘bizarre’, although the baby’s name and gender have not been revealed. The article discusses the X and Tesla owner’s previously shared concerns over declining population rates. ‘A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces, by far,’ he has tweeted in the past. Musk is a fanatic when it comes to a possibly ‘population collapse’ which he believes is a bigger risk to the world than global warming.