Comcast-owned Freewheel has just launched a service that lets media buyers purchase audiences that are deduplicated across linear TV (the old-school channels you see on cable) and Connected TV (the things you access through streaming content services).  The service uses linear TV audiences in Comcast households as a base, and supplements it with ads on CTV services that have partnered with Comcast. It’s one small step to make CTV buying easier.

Salesforce is buying Airkit.ai, which builds low-code, AI-powered e-commerce customer service agents.  You might have thought Salesforce could already do that, but presumably Airkit does it better.  It doesn’t hurt that the company founders sold a previous business to Salesforce, the company was partly funded by Salesforce Ventures, and the product is already listed on AppExchange.  Price was not announced.