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venture's $200b quarter

CB Insights has published its latest newsletter on venture funding, covering a $200 billion quarter.

State of Venture Q2’26

Funding tops $200B for the second consecutive quarter. Deal count hits a decade low. Mega-rounds take 81% of all capital. SpaceX goes public at a record valuation. Every data point comes from the CB Insights proprietary database, updated in real time.

Dun & Bradstreet Integrates Commercial Graph into Perplexity

Dun & Bradstreet announced a collaboration with Perplexity to bring the D&B Commercial Graph to Perplexity and the agent platform Perplexity Computer via Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. The integration makes D&B’s verified business identity, relationship, and risk data—anchored by the D-U-N-S® Number—available inside Perplexity to support risk, finance, compliance, procurement, sales, and KYC/KYB workflows. D&B says the Commercial Graph covers more than 650 million business entities and is validated by over 100 billion monthly data quality checks. Early results for AI-powered KYC/KYB remediation cited in the release show substantial efficiency gains and reductions in false positives.

• Dun & Bradstreet announced a collaboration with Perplexity to bring the D&B Commercial Graph to Perplexity and Perplexity Computer via Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
• The D&B Commercial Graph is anchored by the global standard D-U-N-S® Number and covers more than 650 million global business entities.
• Dun & Bradstreet states the Commercial Graph is verified by more than 100 billion monthly data quality checks.

accessiBe launches conversational AI assistant in accessWidget

accessiBe announced the launch of an AI accessibility assistant built into its accessWidget on August 10, 2026. The conversational interface lets website visitors describe needs in plain language (for example: “the text is too small,” “take me to the footer,” or “what’s this page about?”) and the assistant applies accessibility adjustments, answers questions about the current page, provides plain-language summaries, and guides focus to elements. accessiBe says the assistant was developed with feedback from its Inclusive Product Advisory Board and accessLabs. The feature is presented as one layer of accessiBe’s end-to-end accessibility platform alongside developer tooling (accessFlow) and expert services (accessServices).

• accessiBe launched an AI accessibility assistant built into accessWidget on August 10, 2026.
• The assistant accepts plain-language requests and can apply accessibility adjustments, answer page-specific questions, return page summaries, and guide visitors to elements.
• The assistant was developed with feedback from accessiBe’s Inclusive Product Advisory Board and accessLabs.

Flowfinity Releases Actions 26.1 with AI and GIS

Flowfinity announced the release of Flowfinity Actions 26.1, a major update that expands AI assistant capabilities, introduces enterprise-grade geospatial data collection (including geocode-verified location capture), and adds UI and dashboard improvements for field operations teams. The update includes a virtual user lookup view to track whether records were updated by an AI agent or a human, enhanced chart range visualizations, an improved scheduler with resource filtering, faster lookup fields, and configurable password expiration policies for administrators. The release is positioned to improve traceability, reduce manual errors, and better connect location data to automated workflows.

• Flowfinity released Flowfinity Actions 26.1 as a major product update.
• The release expands AI assistant capabilities, including a virtual user lookup view that tracks whether records were updated by an AI agent via MCP or a human user.
• Flowfinity Actions 26.1 adds enterprise-grade geospatial data collection with geocode-verified location data capture at point of work.