The players · chips
Nvidia
Called a design flaw fixed while the chips kept overheating, floated a $100 billion OpenAI investment that shrank to $30 billion within months, and lets two unnamed customers explain nearly 40 percent of its revenue.
The chipmaker selling the shovels for the AI gold rush, increasingly financing the same customers who buy its hardware while insisting both the boom and the doomsday warnings around it are overstated.
4 weak · 2 mixed · 0 solid
Whether the $30 billion Nvidia-OpenAI investment closes on the terms reported, and how much of the resulting revenue is effectively Nvidia paying itself back through hardware purchases; the closing filing would settle it.
How did the old BS index work?
The retired formula gives 4 Weak × 100 + 2 Mixed × 50 + 0 Solid × 0, divided by 6 rated questions = 83 after rounding. Unknowns are excluded. It is an editorial shorthand, not a measured probability, so this dossier leads with individual findings instead.
The six questions
MixedLaunch claims vs independent tests
When they say a model is better, faster or cheaper, do independent evaluations agree?
Jensen Huang said in October 2024 that a Blackwell chip design flaw affecting production had been fixed with TSMC's help; by January 2025 reports found the chips still overheating in high-density server racks built to hold up to 72 of them, complicating customer deployments.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday a design flaw with its latest Blackwell AI chips which impacted production has been fixed with the help of longtime Taiwanese manufacturing partner TSMC.
The Hindu, 23 Oct 2024 ↗overheat when deployed in high-density server racks designed to accommodate up to 72 chips.
The Times of India, 14 Jan 2025 ↗
WeakMoney claims vs the filing
Do their valuation, revenue and user numbers survive contact with primary disclosures?
Nvidia and OpenAI announced a $100 billion investment in September 2025; by January 2026 it was paused amid internal concerns at Nvidia about the deal's scale and structure, and by February it had been replaced with a $30 billion investment tied to OpenAI buying Nvidia hardware.
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Nvidia's plans to invest 100 billion dollars in OpenAI have hit a snag as internal concerns about the deal's scale and structure surfaced.
Hindustan Times, 31 Jan 2026 ↗The deal has now been replaced with the $30 billion Nvidia investment, where the chipmaker will invest $30 billion in exchange of OpenAI stock.
Mint, 19 Feb 2026 ↗
WeakPromises kept
Did the things they announced with a date actually ship, on time, as described?
Nvidia told The Information its Blackwell production was on track even as it was privately informing Microsoft about a delay of three months or more affecting its most advanced chip models, pushing shipments customers expected sooner into the following year.
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A Nvidia spokesperson did not comment on the delay, Bloomberg said, but they did tell The Information that “production is on track to ramp” later this year.
Mint, 3 Aug 2024 ↗The delay, which is estimated to be around three months or even more, could directly affect some of Nvidia's biggest customers, which includes Meta, Google, and Microsoft.
Hindustan Times, 4 Aug 2024 ↗
WeakSafety and incidents
When something went wrong, did they disclose it quickly and honestly?
A Financial Times investigation found more than $1 billion of Nvidia's most advanced chips smuggled into China between April and June 2025; Nvidia said it saw no evidence of this even as it began testing tracking software for the same processors months later.
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More than $1 billion worth of Nvidia's most powerful AI chips were illegally smuggled into China between April and June 2025, according to a Financial Times investigation.
Business Today, 25 July 2025 ↗Nvidia is testing optional chip-tracking software for its Blackwell processors as rumours grow about smuggled hardware reaching China, though the company denies seeing evidence of such activity.
Moneycontrol, 12 Dec 2025 ↗
MixedTransparency
Do they publish what an outsider needs to check them?
Nvidia's SEC filing disclosed that two unnamed customers made up 39% of its second-quarter revenue, meeting disclosure rules on customer concentration while keeping their identities secret, leaving outsiders unable to judge how much of that revenue traces back to Nvidia's own AI investments.
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Nvidia's recent SEC filing reveals that two major, yet unnamed, customers accounted for nearly 40% of its revenue in the last quarter, sparking concerns about over-reliance on a few key clients.
The Times of India, 1 Sept 2025 ↗Nvidia says two unnamed customers accounted for 39% of its Q2 revenue.
Moneycontrol, 1 Sept 2025 ↗
WeakLegal and regulatory record
What do courts and regulators say about them?
China's markets regulator ruled that Nvidia violated antitrust law over its 2020 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, an offense that can carry fines of 1 to 10 percent of annual sales; Nvidia's response was that it follows all laws.
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SAMR this week determined Nvidia violated antitrust law during its 2020 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, potentially exposing the company to fines between 1 and 10 percent of annual sales, according to the Financial Times.
The Times of India, 19 Sept 2025 ↗U.S. chip giant Nvidia said Tuesday it follows all laws after a Chinese investigation found it had breached antitrust rules, the latest development in a fierce tech battle between Beijing and Washington.
The Hindu, 15 Sept 2025 ↗
Their models: what they said vs what others found
Nemotron 3 Diarization open-weights · 23 Sept 2026
They saidNVIDIA says Nemotron 3 Diarization scored 14.72% DER against 19.3% for the next-ranked system on Voice Arena's initial Diarization-Bench, a roughly 24% relative reduction, ranking first among rival systems.
Independent testsNVIDIA notes the results may change once Voice Arena completes its official Version 1 evaluation, and discloses one regression of its own on a two-speaker test even as headline diarization scores improved elsewhere.
Latest · 21 Sept 2026 Jensen Huang dismissed predictions that AI could end the world by 2030, telling CBS News there was a zero percent chance of that, even as rivals like Anthropic urge slower frontier development and independent evaluation. Free Press Journal ↗
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