Dario Amodei was surprisingly chipper yesterday when he sat down with The Economist’s editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, for an interview. The boss of Anthropic, an AI lab worth $380bn, had only just learned that the Pentagon had in effect blacklisted his company, labelling it a supply-chain risk. The feud is not good for either Anthropic or the American government. And it could make an AI disaster more likely. You can watch the full interview on our app or the Insider hub.

Kristi Noem has become the first cabinet secretary to be fired from this Trump administration. The outgoing chief of the Department of Homeland Security leaves behind a violent and controversial legacy. As the face of the president’s mass-deportation campaign, she oversaw the deadly immigration crackdown in Minnesota. She was also a very unpopular manager.