Odaily Planet Daily News: xAI announced the launch of the no-code voice agent platform Voice Agent Builder, which allows users to create human-like voice agents using Grok Voice, priced at $0.05 per minute. The platform integrates telephony features, knowledge retrieval, tools, guardrails, and observability, and supports users using existing phone numbers, APIs, and MCP. Voice Agent Builder is a unified interface built for Grok Voice, with each account including one free phone number. It was launched today as a Beta version.

Odaily News Blockchain security firm SlowMist has issued a warning through its MistEye monitoring system, alerting that attackers are launching social engineering attacks using a fake link, harmony-voice.app. Under the guise of "project collaboration," the attackers lure users into installing a counterfeit Harmony Voice software for real-time translation, aiming to steal accounts and assets.SlowMist has shared the related IOCs with its partner clients and reminds users not to click on such invitation links, download unknown software, or respond to unfamiliar test requests to safeguard their assets.

Odaily News xAI announced the completion of its Series E funding round, with actual funds raised reaching $20 billion, surpassing the previously planned $15 billion fundraising target. According to official disclosures, this round's investors include institutions such as Valor Equity Partners, StepStone Group, Fidelity Management & Research, Qatar Investment Authority, MGX, and Baron Capital Group. NVIDIA and Cisco also participated as strategic investors.xAI stated that in 2025, the company has made multiple advancements in computing power and product development. These include the construction of the Colossus I and II supercomputing centers, with GPU scale exceeding 1 million H100 equivalent computing power; advancing the training of the Grok 4 series models; and launching products like Grok Voice and Grok Imagine, covering application scenarios such as voice, image, and video generation. The company disclosed that its product portfolio currently reaches approximately 600 million monthly active users across the X and Grok applications.Officials stated that this round of financing will primarily be used to accelerate the construction of computing power infrastructure, support the training of the next-generation Grok 5 model, and promote the continuous development of consumer and enterprise-grade products. xAI also indicated that it will continue to expand its team size to support subsequent research, development, and product implementation.

Odaily News OpenAI has begun rolling out Advanced Voice Mode for ChatGPT Plus and Team users, a feature that supports real-time, fluent conversations powered by OpenAI's latest model, GPT-4o, which combines text, vision, and audio to provide faster responses. OpenAI said in a post on X: "Advanced Voice will be available to all Plus and Team users of the ChatGPT app this week. It can also say 'Sorry, I'm late' in more than 50 languages."

Odaily News The Sandbox announced the launch of "Voice Coach Battle" in partnership with Virtual Brand Group (VBG) and ITV Studios (the production company of the American good voice The Voice show). This metaverse experience allows fans to play the role of a celebrity coach, sitting in the iconic red chair of the show, pressing a big red button, and coaching future stars (similar to the process of reality shows). The game will adjust according to every choice made by the virtual coach. In addition to being a gamified version of the popular show, the metaverse experience also encourages fans to use NFTs in the game to interact with NBC's 25th season of The Voice. Fans will earn these NFTs every week for correctly predicting which contestants will advance to the next round and ultimately win the game. (Cointelegraph)

According to official news from Odaily, the Web3 Foundation announced the first round of Decentralized Voices representatives, including 7 Polkadot representatives and 6 Kusama representatives. Each Polkadot representative will be delegated 1 million DOT, with 6 times the faith, that is, each representative is delegated 6 million DOT of voting power, and each Kusama representative will be delegated 5000 KSM, with 6 times the faith, that is, each representative is delegated Voting rights of 30,000 KSM are delegated. Representatives will have delegation rights to these DOTs or KSMs for three months until the end of May.

Odaily News Com2uS Platform, a subsidiary of Com2uS Holdings, announced that it has signed a business agreement with Seoul Media Comics AllVoice to launch audio web comics NFT. (Decenter)

1. The Monetary Authority of Singapore imposed a 9-year ban on the founders of Three Arrows Capital, Su Zhu and Kyle Davies; 2. The Ministry of Public Security and others supervised the prosecution of 5 major cross-border electronic fraud cases, including more than 30 million yuan of induced investment in virtual currency fraud; 3. A certain The giant whale withdrew 489,000 TRB from CEX within half a month, accounting for 19% of the total token supply; 4. MakerDAO joint creation: MakerDAO will launch a new stable currency and a new governance token early next year; 5. Hester Peirce and other specialists Oppose the SEC to take enforcement action against the NFT project Stoner Cats; 6. Russia is studying how to legalize and regulate DAO; 7. The floor price of blue-chip NFT continues to fall, with BAYC’s floor price falling by 16.15% on the 7th; 8. The U.S. Secret Service Bureau was once the top user of the Bittrex exchange and has withdrawn a balance of US$6.2 million; 9. Visa: Plans to test whether stablecoin settlement on Solana can meet the needs of modern corporate financial operations; 10. BM’s NFT platform Voice will gradually cease operations. Its predecessor had raised US$150 million; 11. NFT project Nakamigos will launch a new season of public sale on September 21, with floor prices falling 42% in 24 hours; 12. Yuga Labs released the Made By Apes licensed official catalog, which has included 194 brands; 13. Ethereum core developer: friend.tech will never surpass traditional social media and become the next Twitter; 14. friend.tech TVL exceeded 30 million US dollars; 15. OKX Web3 wallet officially launched the P2P token trading market.

Odaily News NFT platform Voice announced that it will cease operations in a few months as uncertainty in the cryptocurrency and NFT markets is high and lasting. Voice said that new user registration has been suspended and the trading market has been closed. Existing user assets are safe. Users can migrate NFT assets to self-hosted wallets on EOS, Polygon and Ethereum chains in a few weeks. The assets will be retained on the Voice platform until December 31, 2024. Voice was first launched as a social platform by BM, the founder of EOS, in June 2019. At that time, BM evaluated it as an application that changed the industry landscape. Block.one, the parent company of EOS, invested US$150 million in Voice. The selling points of Voice are the token rewards for platform interaction and the guarantee of real users on the entire platform. However, after the product was launched, the user experience was not good, and the response from the community was mediocre. It was shut down shortly after its launch and then transformed into an NFT creation and trading platform. Now it has announced its suspension again.

Odaily News Zeebu, an on-chain invoice settlement platform, completed a pre-sale round of financing of US$25 million, with Bankai Ventures and other strategic investors participating in the investment. It is reported that Zeebu is an on-chain invoice settlement platform for the telecom operator industry, powered by ZBU tokens. The platform leverages blockchain technology to provide telecom operators with loyalty rewards, simplified invoicing and greater transparency. Zeebu has already established strategic partnerships with telecom providers such as Hayo Telecom Inc., Axistel FZE, Qatara Ltd, BBT Voice Limited, Broadband Telecom Inc., BridgeVoice Inc. and Novatel doo, and aims to partner with more than 100 such telecom operators merchants to facilitate the cross-border settlement process. (CryptoSlate)