Voice models grew up. OpenAI’s voice trio shipped May 7 in the API: GPT-Realtime-2 with GPT-5-class reasoning at $32 per million audio input tokens and $64 per million output, GPT-Realtime-Translate covering 70+ languages at $0.034 per minute, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper streaming transcription at $0.017 per minute. The 128,000-token context replaces the old speech-to-text-to-LLM-to-speech stack with one model. Same day, the Trusted Contact rollout gave adults 18+ a single nominee for self-harm alerts, with sub-1-hour reviewer response. Shipping speed and safety speed finally moved on the same calendar.
The wires followed the watts. Hut 8’s Beacon Point lease books a $9.8B, 15-year, 352 MW triple-net contract in Texas with an unnamed investment-grade tenant, scaling to 1 GW campus-wide and up to $25.1B with three 5-year renewals; the stock popped roughly 30% premarket on May 6. The same day, Nvidia’s Corning pact lined up three new North Carolina and Texas plants, a 15M-share warrant at $180 plus a $500M pre-funded warrant — up to $3.2B combined, and a 10x lift in US optical-connectivity capacity. Megawatts only matter once the photons can leave the rack.
Capital is picking its lane. Corgi’s $160M Series B closed May 7 at a $1.3B valuation, led by TCV — double the $630M mark from four months earlier, with OurCrowd and Kindred Ventures along for the ride. CEO Nico Laqua and former OpenAI staffer Emily Yuan are pointing the AI-native insurance stack from startups into trucking next. Voice gets a brain, fiber gets a factory, and an insurance startup doubles in a quarter. The dollars are concentrating where vertical AI meets a real book of business — not at the model layer.
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