Who will control the future of AI?

That is the urgent question of our time. The rapid progress being made on artificial intelligence means that we face a strategic choice about what kind of world we are going to live in: Will it be one in which the United States and allied nations advance a global AI that spreads the technology’s benefits and opens access to it, or an authoritarian one, in which nations or movements that don’t share our values use AI to cement and expand their power?

British journalist Robert Winnett will no longer be the editor of The Washington Post following ethical questions about his past work, it was reported Friday.

The decision was announced by Washington Post publisher Will Lewis to staff in a memo Friday morning, according to CNN and The New York Times.

“It is with regret that I share with you that Robert Winnett has withdrawn from the position of Editor at The Washington Post. Rob has my greatest respect and is an incredibly talented editor and journalist,” the memo read.

British journalist Robert Winnett will not be joining the Washington Post as its editor, an internal memo seen by Reuters showed, following media reports that he used unethical methods to obtain information while working with the Sunday Times.

Post publisher Will Lewis had named Winnett, a former colleague who serves as deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph, to the role earlier this month after the exit of Sally Buzbee, the first woman to lead the storied newsroom. The reversal means Winnett will remain at the Daily Telegraph, which he joined in 2007.

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos faces growing unrest from the newspaper’s staffers — and the latest casualty is the journalist who had been in line to become its next editor.

Robert Winnett, the deputy editor of the British broadsheet Telegraph, will not be taking the helm of the venerable newspaper, the paper said on Friday. That’s after the surprise exit of former Washington Post Sally Buzbee, who stepped down abruptly earlier this month after just three years at the helm.

If Americans know anything about British journalism, it’s that they do it differently over there — usually in ways that wouldn’t pass American ethical standards. Brits pay for stories. British papers don’t separate news from opinion. British reporters hack phones.

These supposed transatlantic differences have been raised frequently amid the flurry of scrutiny on the journalistic and ethical track records of Washington Post publisher Will Lewis and Rob Winnett, a fellow Telegraph alum whom Lewis is bringing in to be Post editor.

If there is one thing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas claims to believe, it’s that words matter.

Justice Clarence Thomas acknowledged on Friday additional luxury travel he had accepted from a conservative billionaire, amending a previous financial disclosure to reflect trips he had taken to an Indonesian island and a secretive all-male club in the Northern California redwoods.

The trips, taken in 2019, were earlier revealed by ProPublica, but it is the first time that Justice Thomas has included them on his financial disclosures.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson disclosed receiving concert tickets from pop superstar Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, one of several notable items revealed Friday in the high court’s latest financial disclosure reports.

Jackson valued the four tickets at $3,711.84, according to her annual disclosure form, which covered all of 2023.

It’s unclear precisely which show Jackson or her family attended, but Knowles-Carter played a sold-out show in a thunderstorm in the Washington D.C. area in August 2023.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has filed an amended financial disclosure that includes two trips he was gifted.

Justice Thomas, an appointee of President George H. W. Bush, said in his 2023 disclosure that he “inadvertently omitted” the trips, paid for by billionaire Harlan Crow, on his report for 2019.

The new disclosure, dated March 15 and made public on Friday, lists one tip on July 12, 2019, to Bali, Indonesia.

The other trip was from July 18 to July 21, 2019. The location was Monte Rio, California.

A group of OpenAI insiders is blowing the whistle on what they say is a culture of recklessness and secrecy at the San Francisco artificial intelligence company, which is racing to build the most powerful A.I. systems ever created.

The group, which includes nine current and former OpenAI employees, has rallied in recent days around shared concerns that the company has not done enough to prevent its A.I. systems from becoming dangerous.