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The article got updated since you copied this, it's now:

> The ChatGPT maker is developing tools with the US Defense Department on open-source cybersecurity software — collaborating with DARPA for its AI Cyber Challenge announced last year — and has had initial talks with the US government about methods to assist with preventing veteran suicide, Anna Makanju, the company’s vice president of global affairs, said in an interview at Bloomberg House at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday.

So they're working with the Defense Department because it's a DARPA competition that ultimately benefits the Department of Veteran Affairs.

This headline may need a change dang.