“Shortly after I sent yesterday’s note on OpenAI’s latest woes, it was revealed that they are also under SEC investigation.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
OpenAI is under SEC investigation as of late February 2024.
Assessment: Supported Evidence as of
Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, Serious medical error from Perplexity’s chatbot, paragraph 8.
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- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence as of
- the cutoff for this assessment
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Observation
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- None stated. This site does not add one.
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
From the speaker
- Shortly after I sent yesterday’s note
- it was revealed
- they are also under SEC investigation
Our interpretation
- They refers to OpenAI.
- The claim concerns an SEC investigation reported on February 28–29, 2024, not a finding of misconduct.
- The explicit reference to yesterday and the post date define the target period. The exact ordering relative to the earlier newsletter is incidental to the normalized claim.
Counts as supported if: A public SEC record or credible contemporaneous reporting establishes an active SEC investigation concerning OpenAI during February 28–29, 2024.
Counts as contradicted if: Reliable contemporaneous records or a substantiated correction establish that the reported investigation did not exist or concerned a different entity or regulator.
Retrospective: these criteria were written after the outcome was public.
Current assessment
Was it true for the period described?
Outcome: Supported
The dated evidence matches what the claim committed to, under the criteria frozen before grading.
Scored on a plain reading. The speaker named no measure for this claim, so it was judged on the reading an informed reader would take, stated below under our interpretation. Both reviews had to find that reading fair.
- Evidence as of
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
On February 29, 2024, Reuters, citing the Wall Street Journal's February 28 report, described an ongoing SEC investigation into whether OpenAI investors were misled [e1]. The report described records requests, a December subpoena to OpenAI, and document-preservation requests to senior executives, supporting the claim that OpenAI was under investigation during February 28–29, 2024 [e1]. Reuters reported that the SEC declined to comment [e1].
Limitations
- No public SEC confirmation was located.
- Reuters attributes the investigation to the Wall Street Journal; it is not a second independent confirmation.
- The report does not establish misconduct by OpenAI or its executives.
- The timing relative to Marcus's previous newsletter was not verified.
Evidence (1 item)
Supports the claim: Reuters, republished by Yahoo Finance,
investigation
Why it matters here: The contemporaneous report describes an ongoing SEC investigation involving OpenAI. This supports the claim that OpenAI was under investigation at the time, while retaining Reuters' attribution to the Wall Street Journal.
- Publisher
- Reuters, republished by Yahoo Finance
- Kind of source
- News report
- Describes events of
- Public from
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Marcus on AI, Serious medical error from Perplexity’s chatbot
Shortly after I sent yesterday’s note on OpenAI’s latest woes, it was revealed that they are also under SEC investigation.
- Where
- paragraph 8
- Published
- 2024-02-29
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment marcus-serious-medical-error-from-perplexitys-cd39c9-a2: Current. Outcome: Supported. Evidence as of 2026-10-28. Public date not recorded.
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