Elon Musk, Grimes secretly welcomed a 3rd child together
globalnews.caElon Musk and Canadian singer Grimes privately welcomed a third child together, according to a post the tech billionaire made on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
News that Musk and Grimes had a secret third child surfaced after the New York Times published a review of Musk’s upcoming biography, written by Walter Isaacson, in which the child is mentioned.
Tau Techno Mechanicus
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=«https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1700718126235861168?ref_src=» https:>September 10, 2023
Musk confirmed the rumours in response to a post made by entertainment news account Pop Base, which listed the unusual names of the pair’s three children.
Musk wrote that the child is named Tau Techno Mechanicus. But according to Isaacson’s biography, the child’s legal name is Techno Mechanicus Musk and Tau is a nickname.
Tau Techno Mechanicus
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=«https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1700718126235861168?ref_src=» https:>September 10, 2023
According to the unreleased biography, which was obtained by the Los Angeles Times, Techno Mechanicus was born via a surrogate on June 2022. His nickname, Tau, is a reference to the Greek letter that is two times the value of pi, an irrational number important in geometry and mathematics.
Tau roughly equals to 6.28, a nod to Musk’s birthday on June 28.
Musk and Grimes share two other children together: X Æ A-12, their three-year-old son who goes by X, and Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, their one-year-old daughter who goes by Y.
The pair also waited several months to announce the birth of their second child. News of Exa Dark Sideræl’s birth only came after an interviewer overheard a baby crying while
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