“If you have time on your hands, you can try spot the errors of omission and commission, starting with the omission both of yesterday’s deal Xai-Anthropic deal and the Broadcom-OpenAI deal, and also has some very obsolete valuations.”
Our reading:
ChatGPT Pro's update of the circular financing chart contained errors of omission and commission: it left out the xAI-Anthropic and Broadcom-OpenAI deals and used very outdated valuations.
Assessment: Unresolved
What happened
Was it true for the period described?
Outcome: Unresolved
We checked, and the evidence so far doesn’t settle it.
Judged on a plain reading. They named no measure, so we used the reading a typical informed reader would take. It is spelled out under “How we judged it”.
Evidence up to . Checked .
Why
The claim is about one chart that ChatGPT Pro made. The speaker says an unnamed X user posted it. The chart is not in the evidence packet, and the X post is not identified. One secondary news report (e1) says Anthropic and SpaceX announced a compute deal on May 6, 2026. That was the day before the speaker's May 7, 2026 post. The same report (e2) gives $852 billion as OpenAI's most recent valuation. The report was available around May 7, 2026. Neither item shows what the chart contained. So it cannot be checked whether the chart left out the xAI–Anthropic and Broadcom–OpenAI deals or showed outdated valuations. The speaker's own description cannot count as evidence of what the image showed. The claim is unresolved.
Caveats
- The packet does not contain the ChatGPT Pro chart. The X user and the post are not named.
- Both context items come from one secondary news report. Its available_at date is approximate.
- The Axios and Techmeme pages returned HTTP 403. A guessed Anthropic URL returned 404. None of them were used.
- No evidence item in the packet documents the OpenAI–Broadcom deal.
- The cited valuation figure (e2) is for OpenAI. The packet does not give a full set of current valuations to compare with the chart. The contract sets no threshold for how outdated a valuation must be to count as 'very obsolete.'
Evidence (2 items)
Context only: KuCoin News (Shenchao TechFlow),
Then, on May 6, Anthropic and SpaceX jointly announced that Anthropic would receive the full computing capacity of Colossus 1
Why it matters: This confirms that an xAI/SpaceX–Anthropic deal was announced the day before the post, so the deal existed for the chart to leave out. It does not show what the chart contained. The available_at date is approximate.
- Where
- paragraph 3
- Publisher
- KuCoin News (Shenchao TechFlow)
- Kind of source
- News report
- About events on
- Published
Context only: KuCoin News (Shenchao TechFlow),
OpenAI's most recent valuation is $852 billion
Why it matters: This gives a benchmark valuation current in May 2026 that the chart's figures could be compared with. Without the chart, no comparison is possible. The available_at date is approximate.
- Publisher
- KuCoin News (Shenchao TechFlow)
- Kind of source
- News report
- About events on
- Published
How we judged it
- Kind of claim
- Observation
- Deadline
- None given. We don’t add one.
Conditions
- when asked to update the Bloomberg circular financing chart (their words)
Where we had to interpret
- The claim describes one specific image that ChatGPT Pro made, which an X user posted on or about May 7, 2026.
- Plain reading: the image shows no link for the xAI (SpaceX)–Anthropic compute deal announced May 6, 2026, and no link for the OpenAI–Broadcom custom chip deal. Some company valuations on it are well behind the latest public figures as of early May 2026.
- 'Errors of omission and commission' is treated as a summary of those three specific faults, not as a separate test.
Right if: The posted ChatGPT Pro chart can be viewed. It has no xAI–Anthropic link and no Broadcom–OpenAI link, and it shows valuations well below or behind the latest public valuations as of May 7, 2026.
Wrong if: The posted chart can be viewed and shows either the xAI–Anthropic deal or the Broadcom–OpenAI deal, or its valuations match the public figures current in early May 2026.
We wrote this test after the outcome was known.
What would settle it
A viewable copy of the ChatGPT Pro chart from the X post. It would need to be compared with primary or reputable reports of the May 6, 2026 Anthropic–SpaceX/xAI deal, the OpenAI–Broadcom custom chip deal, and the company valuations that were current in early May 2026.
We found 2 claims in this post. See them all.
Full record
Source and dates
Marcus on AI, Breaking news: “they hadn’t figured out how OpenAI would pay for it”, paragraph 17.
- Said
- We read the source
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence up to
- Checked
We read this wording on 2026-10-28. The post may have been edited after 2026-05-07.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the posts we read.
: Marcus on AI, Breaking news: “they hadn’t figured out how OpenAI would pay for it”
If you have time on your hands, you can try spot the errors of omission and commission, starting with the omission both of yesterday’s deal Xai-Anthropic deal and the Broadcom-OpenAI deal, and also has some very obsolete valuations.
- Where
- paragraph 17
- Published
- 2026-05-07
- We read it
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Versions
- Current: Unresolved. Evidence up to 2026-10-28.
What happened to this record
PublishedBy us
Published after both AI reviews and the final check passed.
Held backBy us
The final check failed: the write-up said more than the evidence showed.