Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The Francis Scott Key Bridge, a 2.6km truss bridge carrying I-695 over Baltimore's Patapsco River since 1977, collapsed after being struck by a container ship, killing several construction workers.

The founder of FTX was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $11bn, four months after a jury convicted him on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy over the theft of customer deposits from the cryptocurrency exchange.

Valentino announced Alessandro Michele, who had spent eight years as Gucci's creative director before leaving in late 2022, as its new creative director, succeeding Pierpaolo Piccioli after his 25-year run at the house.

China removed the anti-dumping and countervailing duties of up to 220% that had shut Australian bottled wine out of its market since 2020, effective 29 March 2024; Australia's wine exports to China had been worth A$1.1 billion in 2019.

Cloud Art's donghua adaptation Zhu Xian returns for a second season, continuing its wuxia-fantasy story of a young disciple caught between rival martial sects amid a war for control of a legendary sword.

Sound! Euphonium 3 follows Kumiko Oumae's final year at Kitauji High School, now band president, as she pushes the more than 90-member concert band toward the nationals gold it has long chased.

The TV anime of Miraijin A's reincarnation fantasy premieres from studio MOTHER, following Ars Louvent as he uses his Appraisal skill to recruit talented retainers for his family's small territory.

The second cour of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 begins airing, as Rudeus Greyrat and Sylphiette hold their wedding party and Rudeus faces what his new life asks of him.

Production I.G's adaptation of Kaiju No. 8 begins airing, as monster-disposal worker Kafka Hibino gains the power of the creatures he cleans up and chases his abandoned dream of joining the Defense Force.

Elon Musk told Tesla staff the company would cut more than 10% of its roughly 140,000 jobs worldwide to reduce costs, as senior executives Drew Baglino and Rohan Patel left and the shares fell more than 5%.

miHoYo releases Genshin Impact: The Song Burning in the Embers, a promotional animated short for the video game tied to its Fontaine story arc.

miHoYo's in-house animation arm launches an ongoing string of short, self-contained episodes built around individual Genshin Impact characters, each running only a few minutes but paired with full original scoring and film-quality visuals. The shorts fill in backstory for the game's cast without requiring any prior familiarity with Teyvat, making them as much stand-alone shorts as promotional tie-ins.

Brightline West broke ground on a 218-mile electric high-speed line between Las Vegas and Southern California, aiming to become America's first true bullet train.

The FTC filed suit in federal court and issued an administrative complaint to stop Tapestry, owner of Coach and Kate Spade, from buying Capri Holdings' Michael Kors, arguing the deal would eliminate head-to-head competition in accessible-luxury handbags.

Georgia's Plant Vogtle Unit 4 entered commercial operation in April 2024, completing the first new nuclear reactors built from scratch in the US in over three decades.

The US Preventive Services Task Force finalises its advice that all women get a mammogram every other year from age 40 to 74, lowering the start age from 50.

Enter the Garden, a three-part anime anthology from the Azuki brand and Dentsu with creative producer Goro Taniguchi, debuts online.

The FOMC held the federal funds target range at 5-1/4 to 5-1/2 percent on 1 May 2024 and said it would slow the pace of decline of its securities holdings from June.

Paris inaugurated the Austerlitz basin, a giant underground stormwater tank built to stop sewage overflow into the Seine in time for Olympic swimming events.

A 70,000 sq ft, $75 million chocolate processing plant on Ferrero's Bloomington, Illinois campus, the group's third chocolate factory worldwide and its first outside Europe, making chocolate for Kinder, Ferrero Rocher, Butterfinger and Crunch.

OpenAI releases GPT-4o, its flagship model that reasons across audio, vision and text in real time, and makes it the new default in ChatGPT.

Anglo American said De Beers is "to be divested or demerged" as part of a radical portfolio simplification, with CEO Duncan Wanblad saying he expected a sale to complete by the end of 2025 - a timeline the diamond market's slump has since pushed well past.

At Google I/O 2024 Google debuts Gemini 1.5 Flash, a lighter and faster model with the same 1 million token context window as 1.5 Pro, alongside a 2 million token private preview for Pro.

The third season of Fabulous Beasts (You Shou Yan) begins streaming, continuing FENZ's manga-based comedy about human and beast-folk life in a fantastical Chinese setting.

Vuori's first store in China, its 67th worldwide, opened on 17 May 2024 at Jing'an Kerry Centre in Shanghai after a pop-up at the same mall.