Sources: PayPal has paused plans to sell its VC portfolio for $900M-$1B after bids came in lower than hoped, months after deciding to wind down PayPal Ventures (Axios)

PayPal has halted its plan to sell its venture-capital portfolio for $900 million to $1 billion after receiving bids below expectations, pausing the wind-down of PayPal Ventures. OpenAI released GPT-6 “Astra,” trained on more than 100,000 GPUs, priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, achieving 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 with its standard harness and 99.9% with a provider-adapter harness.