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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the Snowflake Summit in San Francisco on June 2, 2025.Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesOpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract to provide the U.S. Defense Department with artificial intelligence tools.The department announced the one-year contract on Monday, months after OpenAI said it would collaborate with defense technology startup Anduril to deploy advanced AI systems for “national security missions.””Under this award, the performer will develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains,” the Defense Department said. It’s the first contract with…

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About two-thirds of newlyweds, 67%, say they took on debt to fund their big day, according to a March 2025 survey of over 1,000 brides and grooms from LendingTree. To some people, the choice may seem frivolous. The cake gets eaten, the flowers die, and you end up with a bill that collects interest. But there’s another way to look at it, says Matt Schulz, consumer finance analyst at Lending Tree. “To me, good debt is all about a return on your investment,” he says. “And that return on investment doesn’t have to be financial.”If having a certain kind of…

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