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The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first cryogenic calorimetric experiment searching for 0νββ decay that has successfully reached the one-tonne mass scale. The detector, located at LNGS in Italy, consists of an array of 988 TeO$_2$ crystals arranged in a compact cylindrical structure of 19 towers. CUORE has been collecting data continuously at ~10 mK since 2017, achieving a 90% uptime and amassing close to 3 tonne-years of TeO$_2$ exposure. In October 2025, the collaboration published their most recent result of the search for 0νββ decay, corresponding to two tonne-years of TeO$_2$ exposure. This is the largest amount of data ever acquired and analysed with a solid state cryogenic detector. In this contribution, we will present the current status of the CUORE search for 0νββ decay with the updated statistics of two tonne-years of TeO$_2$ exposure. These statistics also allow for one of the most detailed background reconstructions in the field and enable a precision measurement of the $^{130}$Te 2νββ decay half-life. We will further provide an overview of the additional science program of CUORE from low energy studies to the first ever investigation of the response of a cryogenic detector array to environmental microseismic activity, in particular correlated to sea wave activity.