Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

Verizon agreed to buy Frontier Communications, the largest pure-play US fiber provider, in an all-cash deal valued at $20 billion ($38.50 a share), adding 2.2 million fiber subscribers and reach to 25 million premises across 31 states and DC.

Aldi Nord's 42,800-square-metre distribution centre near Lehrte-Aligse began supplying 77 stores in Lower Saxony, completing the modernisation of its German logistics network.

Givenchy named Sarah Burton, who spent two decades as Alexander McQueen's creative director before stepping down in 2023, as its new creative director, effective immediately, to oversee both the women's and men's lines.

Marriott's plan for the world's tallest modular hotel in Manhattan's NoMad district collapsed after years of stalled construction, and the site was sold for a residential condo tower instead.

Every US mammography facility must now tell patients in writing whether their breast tissue is dense, which can hide cancers on a mammogram, under the FDA's amended Mammography Quality Standards Act rule.

A section of the 1971-built Carola Bridge in Dresden, Germany collapsed into the Elbe overnight with no warning, minutes after the last tram had crossed it.

OpenAI releases o1-preview and o1-mini, the first of a new series of models that spend more time thinking before they respond.

After bargaining that began in March 2023 and strikes that delayed the cane crush, 55% of voting Wilmar Sugar and Renewables employees accepted a three-year deal with a A$2,500 bonus and 16% in pay rises.

Malaysia formally launched the Forest City Special Financial Zone, a tax-incentive push aimed at reviving the stalled $100 billion artificial-island city project in the Johor Strait.

Given the Movie: To the Sea, the third feature film in Lerche's Given series, opens in Japanese theaters, picking the story back up as singer Mafuyu Sato begins to doubt his place fronting the band Given.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 707, the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024, making California the first US state to require clothing and textile makers to fund the collection, repair and recycling of their products.

The second season of the reincarnation fantasy premieres from studio MOTHER in the CBC/TBS Agaru Anime block, continuing Ars Louvent's rise as he leads his territory through the empire's widening war.

Alessandro Michele staged his debut Valentino runway show at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, a maximalist Spring/Summer 2025 ready-to-wear collection blending Gucci-era exuberance with Valentino's own archive, including its signature red gowns reworked with feathers and lingerie layering.

Chef Fátima Juárez runs a molino and antojitos counter in South Los Angeles, milling heirloom Mexican corn into masa every day.

Ferrero North America opened a 169,000 sq ft Kinder Bueno factory on its Bloomington, Illinois campus, a $214 million investment creating about 200 jobs and making Kinder Bueno in the US for the first time.

Claudia Sheinbaum took the oath of office before Congress at the Palacio Legislativo de San Lázaro on 1 October 2024, becoming Mexico's first woman president for the 2024-2030 term.

Urban Miracle Doctor is an iQIYI donghua adapting Chao Shuang Hei Pi's web novel, in which a broke student stumbles into an ancient medical inheritance and returns to the modern city a healer-fighter.

Sharefun Studio's Scissor Seven Season 5 begins streaming, sending hitman-turned-hairdresser Seven back to Xuanwu Country to confront the fragmented memories at the center of the series' overarching mystery.