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Source: OpenAI OpenAI has officially launched GPT-Realtime and the revamped Realtime API, offering a powerful, all-in-one speech-to-speech model designed to transform voice-based interactions in business applications. The update marks the shift to general availability, dropping the need for separate speech-to-text and text-to-speech chains and introducing Features like image input, SIP phone calling, and access to external tools. The new offering is optimised for real-world use, improving response naturalness while streamlining integration for customer support, assistants, and educational platforms. The Realtime API is officially out of beta and ready for your production voice agents! We’re also introducing gpt-realtime—our most advanced speech-to-speech model yet—plus new voices and API capabilities: Remote MCPs ️ Image input SIP phone calling ️ Reusable prompts pic.twitter.com/fX5yvt0CDD — OpenAI Developers (@OpenAIDevs) August 28, 2025 What Is GPT-Realt...

OpenAI has secured $8.3 billion in fresh funding , elevating its valuation to an estimated $300 billion. The sizeable round cements its position as one of the most valuable private technology companies in the world, amid surging interest in artificial intelligence. Strong Backing Reflects Investor Confidence The latest funding round reportedly includes contributions from prominent institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds and strategic partners. While OpenAI has not publicly disclosed all participants, reports indicate that existing backers such as Microsoft played a continued role. The $300 billion valuation is not tied to a traditional equity sale, but rather derived from a tender offer allowing investors to purchase shares from existing shareholders. This secondary share sale structure enables early employees and stakeholders to realise gains without the company going public. we have a ton of stuff to launch over the next couple of months–new m...

Since 2013, Bitcoin (BTC) has experienced positive returns in October for nine out of eleven years, rendering the “Uptober” moniker. As September ends, Finbold turned to OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) model, o1, for a price prediction based on historical results. The o1 AI – deemed one of the world’s most advanced models – calculated a potential price for Bitcoin in 2024’s “Uptober.” For that, OpenAI’s o1 used the average and median monthly historical results from October’s opening to closing prices. As a result, o1 predicts BTC will trade between $80,800 and $83,900 by the end of the month. This forecast considers an opening price of $65,717, as we prompted the exchange rate at the time of writing. Picks for you Beware: Cryptocurrencies to unlock $300 million supply this week ...

Aside from ditching USDC for its native token, Worldcoin announced some changes to the terms of its WLD loans to market makers. Worldcoin is set to begin paying its Orb Operators — those rewarded for scanning people's eyes — with its native Worldcoin (WLD) token, phasing out USD Coin (USDC) as early as next month. According to an Oct. 22 announcement, Worldcoin says Orb Operators — who are “independent ecosystem participants” tasked with scanning people’s irises in exchange for WLD tokens — will cease to be paid in USDC as of November. The change will affect most jurisdictions. Worldcoin said the move to pay orb operators entirely in WLD was part of a “transitional phase” following the official launch of the project on July 24. On Oct. 10, the Worldcoin Foundation kicked off a pilot program to grant select operators with payment in WLD tokens. “In November 2023, the Worldcoin Foundation expects that the transition process will be completed such that all Operators will receive...