The White House is establishing a committee dedicated to all things artificial intelligence. In other words, “Policymakers are taking early steps to wrap their heads around artificial intelligence,” Axios writes. “The new Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence will include ‘the most senior R&D officials of the Federal Government’ and offer guidance to the administration on research priorities.”

Japanese HR giant Recruit Holdings is buying Glassdoor for $1.2 billion, GeekWirereports. Regarding the U.S.-based job review sites, GW notes that it “operates a recruiting and jobs platform with 59 million active monthly users and data on more than 770,000 companies across 190 countries.”

If not quite ready to pass the Turing Test, Google latest virtual assistant is “incredibly impressive,” Axios writes. Unveiled at this week’s I/O conference, the assistant “can convincingly converse with a person to make a reservation and uses all-too-human sounding ‘umms’ and other responses,” it writes.

Apple appears to be cracking down on applications that share location data with third parties. “In such cases, Apple has been removing the application in question and informing developers that their app violates two parts of the App Store Review Guidelines,” 9To5Mac reports. “Thus far, we’ve seen several cases of Apple cracking down on these types of applications.”

Walmart is shelling out $16 billion for a majority stake in Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart. For the retail giant, “Its long-term aim would be to support Flipkart’s transition into a publicly-listed subsidiary,” CNBC notes. “The retailer said it expects India’s e-commerce market to grow at four times the rate of the overall retail industry.”

The Atlantic’s Ian Bogost suggests that Stories -- already familiar to users of Snapchat and Instagram -- may ultimately emerge as the dominant media format. “It’s a collection of images and short videos, with optional overlays and effects, that a user can add to over time, but which disappears after 24 hours,” he writes. “Like them or hate them, Stories might be the first true smartphone media format.”  

Among Facebook’s U.S. community, about half say they have not changed their user habits since the Cambridge Analytica controversy, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. Meanwhile, a quarter of U.S. respondents say they are using the platform more, while the remaining quarter say they’re using Facebook less often. “That means that the people using Facebook less were roughly balanced by those using it more, with no clear net loss or gain in use,” Reuters reports.

The Verge tells readers what to expect from Google’s forthcoming I/O developer conference. “We know we’ll be hearing about the future of Android and Google’s artificial intelligence efforts,” it writes. “But there will also be news on everything from its new wearable platform, Wear OS, and Google Assistant to Android TV, Google Home, Google Play, and Search.”

In the first quarter, Berkshire Hathaway bought 75 million shares of Apple, CNBC reports. “That adds to the 165.3 million shares Berkshire already owned at the end of 2017,” it notes. “Berkshire is now the third largest Apple shareholder, behind Vanguard and BlackRock.”

Apple plans to shut down Texture’s Windows app sometime this summer. “Significantly the iOS, Android, and Amazon Fire (Android-based) editions will keep working,” Apple Insider reports. “Although Apple has a tendency to shut out competing platforms once it buys a company and its products, Texture said on its website that it’s ending Windows support to ‘keep things working smoothly.’”