Independent auditor appointment
Company: Core Scientific
What the later record shows
Outcome not yet confirmed
The FY2025 10-K lists an audit report from a firm with PCAOB ID 185, alongside the prior firm (PCAOB ID 688). No passage names KPMG or reports the outcome of the ratification vote.
“Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID 185 ) 65 Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID 688) 67”
2026-03-01 · Core Scientific 10-K filed 2026-03-02 View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗
Checked October 10, 2026 against filings, releases and reporting published after the claim was made. Quotes are verbatim from the linked documents.
The claim, verbatim
KPMG LLP was ratified as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.
Source (primary)
Core Scientific 8-K filed 2025-05-13 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗
Quote: “Proposal 8: To ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025”
How we checked this
Checked on October 10, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The filing reports Proposal 8, ratification of KPMG LLP as auditor for fiscal 2025. It passed by an overwhelming margin.
Confirmed in the source:
- Stockholders voted on ratifying KPMG LLP as Core Scientific's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025
- The ratification passed, with 232,816,892 votes for and 191,415 against
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1839341/000162828025025065/core-20250512.htm) in full (8,078 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Core Scientific 8-K filed 2025-05-13
Quote: “Proposal 8: To ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025”