Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

OpenAI introduces GPT-4o mini, its most capable and cost-efficient small model, surpassing GPT-3.5 Turbo on academic benchmarks.

Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199 begins release, an OVA continuation of the long-running Yamato franchise picking up from the Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2205 films as the crew presses further into the war with extradimensional forces.

An Illinois judge preliminarily approved Alo Moves' settlement of claims that it shared viewing data with Meta, giving each US class member who files by 18 November 2024 a voucher for three free months of classes.

Lingwu Continent is an iQIYI-streamed Chinese fantasy donghua from Soyep about a fallen prodigy who regains his power as a rare dual cultivator of spirit and martial arts.

The Chinese donghua Slay the Gods begins streaming, a Shenman Entertainment production in which a blind teenage night watchman battles mythic invaders threatening his world.

Production I.G streams Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You Season 3, picking up right after Sawako and Kazehaya become a couple as their families and friends' own romances keep unfolding around them.

A 10,000 sq ft Alo flagship at 150 Regent Street with two floors of shop and Alo's first gym and wellness club in the UK.

The US General Services Administration reversed course on a $52M congressional earmark to demolish two historic Chicago Loop skyscrapers, opting to reuse them instead after a sustained preservation campaign.

The fourth season of the Chinese donghua comedy-fantasy Fabulous Beasts (You Shou Yan) streams online, continuing its manga-adapted story of mismatched humans and mythical beasts.

A second season of The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, the isekai comedy about a healer drilled into a battlefield medic, was announced on stage at Otakon 2024.

The second season of Rising Impact begins streaming, following golf prodigy Gawain and Camelot Academy's Japan team as they compete against gifted young golfers from UK and US schools in the Camelot Cup.

On August 11, 2024, the Martin JRM Mars flying boat "Hawaii Mars" made its final flight, escorted by Snowbirds jets, ending 78 years of service as the world’s largest water bomber.

OpenAI ships a GPT-4o update in ChatGPT that users preferred in experiments, while saying it is not a new frontier-class model.

NIST released the first three finalised post-quantum cryptography standards - FIPS 203, 204 and 205 - and told system administrators to start migrating immediately. They are the replacements for the public-key cryptography that a large quantum computer would break.

Crews finished carving three enormous caverns a mile beneath a former South Dakota gold mine to house the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

Cloud Art adapts the wuxia-flavored web novel Jian Lai, following an ordinary boy whose single sword strike is powerful enough to split the sky, as he works his way up from nobody to legendary swordsman by taking on increasingly formidable opponents. The 26-episode donghua run established enough of a following to earn a second season the following year.

Sydney opened the City & Southwest section of its Sydney Metro, adding a new driverless rail crossing under Sydney Harbour and the CBD alongside the city's largest railway cavern.

Given: Hiiragi Mix Specials is a set of four short bonus stories bundled with the Blu-ray release of Given the Movie 2: Hiiragi Mix, animated by Lerche as an extension of the Given franchise.

The first phase of Queen's Wharf Brisbane, the AUD $3.6BN riverside district built around the historic Queen's Wharf site, opened to the public as Star Brisbane.

Prague and Stockholm signed a joint declaration to keep the Čáslav-based Saab JAS 39 Gripen fleet flying beyond the lease's 2027 expiry, until Czech F-35s arrive; the binding contract covering 12 jets to 2035 was still being negotiated the following year. The deal underpins the fleet's ongoing depot-level overhauls, which strip and rebuild each jet roughly every few years.

A plant-forward modern Southern restaurant in a century-old house in Montgomery's Cloverdale neighbourhood, run by nutrition professor Deanne Allegro with a staff of under ten.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o in ChatGPT to make better use of uploaded files and to save the key parts of a conversation to memory.

A vegan-certified Nutella that swaps milk for chickpeas and rice syrup, launched in Nutella's 60th year in Italy, France and Belgium in a 350g jar.

Alo's first performance shoe, a $185 unisex runner with a dual-density midsole and heel clip, went on sale online and in its US stores, backed by a campaign with Joe Burrow.