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How much time does AI save at work? New Census Bureau data breaks it down.

Updated on: August 12, 2026 / 2:34 PM EDT / CBS News

Newly discovered "black hole star" could solve mystery of strange red dots spotted in the early universe

August 12, 2026 / 12:42 PM EDT / CBS/AFP

A Huge AI Datacenter is Planned Near Mar-a-Lago. The Everglades Could Pay the Price

Plans for hyperscale datacenter in Palm Beach county prompt concerns over water and electricity demands

Astronomers discover a new kind of cosmic object

The body is the size of the entire solar system and glows with a brilliant red light billions of light years from Earth

My Brilliant Career review

Philippa Northeast is entertaining as Sybylla Melvyn in this adaptation of Miles Franklin’s 1901 novel that has more erotica and a more pronounced love triangle

How to best play a vitally important AI infrastructure cog using options

While the valuation is clearly not cheap, the profitability profile is extraordinary for a hardware company.

What’s a wedding without a dirtbike doughnut? Hark1karan’s best photograph

‘On the day the youngest brother got married, they were out doing doughnuts and burnouts at eight in the morning’

‘Nightmare fodder’: Roku’s AI slop channel is even worse than expected

Fairground TV is a 24/7 channel devoted to low-quality AI content for viewers sick of watching real people move in ways that won’t haunt you

Why we’re going back to the games of our youth

As millennials return to the games of their youth, remakes of Star Fox and Halo suggest there is still plenty to learn from the past

Meta partners with trade unions to build AI data centers with American workers

EXCLUSIVE — Meta, the tech giant behind Facebook and Instagram, announced Wednesday morning that it is entering into a first‑of‑its‑kind national partnership with North America’s Building Trades Unions, which represents 3 million construction workers. Now, the future of Meta’s AI data centers is tied to the men and women who build them.

CoreWeave Just Reported Strong Second-Quarter Results. Here's What Wall Street Is Saying

CoreWeave delivered a second-quarter report that left even bearish analysts on the stock impressed.

Atlantic Trivia: Faith and Science

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