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Tarun Mottlia edits LazyFounders, covering Indian startups, funding rounds, AI and product launches. Every story on the site is AI-assisted and checked against its cited sources before publication.
Stories by Tarun Mottlia
altM raises $10.3M to turn crop waste into industrial chemicals
Bengaluru startup altM secures $10.3M in Series A funding to build a 1,000-tonne plant and commercialise bio-based chemicals from agricultural residue.
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Nov 6, 2026
Hackers disable European freezers holding blood and food, raise temperatures in coordinated attack
Coordinated cyber-strikes hit refrigeration systems at French blood banks and supermarkets, raising temperatures and threatening supplies.
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Nov 6, 2026
Google offers voluntary exits in five new countries—excluding AI and cloud teams
Google extends voluntary exit packages to Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Switzerland.
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Nov 6, 2026
Venomics AI raises $2.7M to hunt for drugs in animal venoms
Bengaluru biotech Venomics AI secures $2.7 million in pre-seed funding to build Venom Atlas, a dataset mapping venom molecules for new medicines.
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Nov 6, 2026
OpenAI’s new shared usage limits spark backlash and questions
OpenAI combines ChatGPT and Codex usage limits for subscribers, drawing criticism over transparency.
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Nov 6, 2026
Envoy gives AI agents their own login—without breaking yours
Descope’s Envoy platform gives AI agents their own identity, so sites can accept them securely without overhauling sign-in systems.
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Nov 6, 2026
Dropbox buys Tigris Data for $350M in biggest deal ever
Dropbox acquires Tigris Data for $350 million, its largest deal ever, to launch DBX Agent Cloud, a multi-cloud storage service for AI workloads.
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Nov 6, 2026
Safaricom Fuliza revenue jumps 86% to $38M as borrowers double
Safaricom’s M-PESA overdraft service Fuliza posted 86% revenue growth to KES 4.9B ($38M) in H1 2026, even as average loan sizes fell 24.6% and repayment ratios…
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Nov 6, 2026
Fragmented data sinks 70–80% of enterprise AI projects
Couchbase’s Asia-Pacific VP explains why fragmented data derails most enterprise AI projects and how consolidating data layers speeds up adoption.
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Nov 6, 2026
StrongestLayer launches tools to stop payment fraud and hijacked AI assistants
StrongestLayer’s new tools pause fraudulent payment requests and block hidden AI commands in emails—stopping attacks that traditional security misses.
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Nov 6, 2026
Singapore Airlines breach exposes 46,000 passenger records
Hackers exploited a flaw in Amadeus to access 46,000 Singapore Airlines booking records.
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Nov 6, 2026
Qualcomm stock sinks 7 % after weak guidance and revenue miss
Qualcomm missed Q4 revenue estimates and guided below expectations, sending shares down 7 %. Automotive and IoT grew, but smartphone chip sales slumped 26 %.
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Nov 6, 2026
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Cosmoserve Space raises $6M, opens India’s first private orbital facility
Hyderabad startup Cosmoserve Space secures $6M in seed funding, inaugurates Base 1 for space debris removal, and plans commercial ops by 2028.
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Nov 6, 2026
Visa’s AI shopping benchmark reveals 42.8% failure rate in commerce tasks
Visa’s Agentic Commerce Benchmark tested 22 AI models on 15 shopping tasks. Models failed 42.8% of runs, with Google and Meta leading at 82% success.
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Nov 6, 2026
IBM, AMD and Oak Ridge build a platform to fix quantum errors mid-calculation
IBM, AMD, and Oak Ridge National Lab combined a 120-qubit quantum computer with AMD-powered HPC to correct errors mid-calculation and test algorithms…
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Nov 6, 2026
OpenAI hires ex-Army Secretary and Uber exec to expand defence and enterprise AI
OpenAI appoints Dan Driscoll as senior counselor for national security, Jill Hazelbaker as chief corporate affairs officer, and Catherine Wu from Anthropic…
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Nov 6, 2026
Google, Meta, and TikTok sue California over youth social media law
Google, Meta, and TikTok filed lawsuits to block California’s AB 1709, a law banning addictive social media features for users under 16.
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Nov 6, 2026
AMD reports 45% revenue growth, acquires World Labs for $8.2B
AMD's Q3 revenue jumps 45% year-over-year to $13.38B, driven by data center growth. The company also announces an $8.2B acquisition of AI startup World Labs.
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Nov 6, 2026
upGrad takes Bira91 maker to NCLT over ₹1.02 crore in unpaid dues
Edtech firm upGrad takes B9 Beverages, the company behind Bira91 beer, to NCLT over ₹1.02 crore in unpaid dues amid wider creditor disputes.
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Nov 6, 2026
Broadcom’s VMware update speeds up AI, shrinks costs
Broadcom unveils VMware updates that cut AI setup to minutes, introduce multitenant GPU sharing, and launch a budget-friendly virtualization platform.
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Nov 6, 2026
CVS Health to split into two public companies by mid-2028
CVS Health will separate its 9,000 retail pharmacies from Aetna and Caremark by mid-2028, creating two standalone public companies and ending its all-in-one…
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Nov 6, 2026
Hackers steal $133M from Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, nearly sabotage France’s blood supplies
Hackers stole over $133M from Crédit Mutuel Arkéa and sabotaged refrigeration at France’s blood-service sites.
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Nov 6, 2026
Applied Compute raises $350M at $3.25B valuation after hitting $100M ARR
AI cloud startup Applied Compute raises $350 million led by Elad Gil, valuing the company at $3.25 billion after hitting $100M in annualized revenue in under…
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Nov 6, 2026
Meta acquires Conductor, AI coding startup, to integrate team and tech
Meta acquired Conductor, a startup enabling parallel AI coding agents, to integrate its team and technology. Conductor’s products will shut down by early 2027.
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Nov 6, 2026