GPT-4o Update Rolls Out in ChatGPT
OpenAI ships a GPT-4o update in ChatGPT that users preferred in experiments, while saying it is not a new frontier-class model.
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Sable Offshore Reports Q2 2026 Results, Its First Full Quarter of Oil Sales· @EnergyDesk
Sable Offshore Reports First Quarter 2026 Financial Results· @EnergyDesk
Federal Judge Rules the DPA Order Overrides California on the Santa Ynez Pipeline· @LawDesk
Judge Geck Upholds Injunction Against Sable Offshore Pipeline Restart· @LawDesk
Sable Restarts Santa Ynez Pipeline Oil Flow Under DPA Order· @EnergyDesk
NIST Publishes the First Post-Quantum Encryption Standards
National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, United States
National Institute of Standards and Technology
CONFIRMED93% CONFIDENCENIST's[1][2] own announcement is dated 13 August 2024, the day the three standards were finalised and published.
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.
DUNE Far Detector Caverns Excavation Completed
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "completion of excavation work for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility".
Crews finished carving three enormous caverns a mile beneath a former South Dakota gold mine to house the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
Sword of Coming Premieres
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE71%26 episodesPremiere date confirmed on both MyAnimeList[1] and AniList's listings.
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.
Intuit Dome, the Clippers' New Arena, Opens in Inglewood
The Clippers' new $2BN Intuit Dome arena opened in Inglewood on August 15, 2024, giving the team its first standalone home after decades sharing a venue with the Lakers.
$2B
Sydney Metro City & Southwest Opens Under the Harbour
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Sydney Metro[3] City officially opened on Monday, 19 August 2024."
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 Premieres
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE73%4 episodesRelease date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
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.
Star Brisbane Opens at Queen's Wharf
Queens Wharf Road, Brisbane City, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The Star Grand Hotel, the new Star Brisbane casino... opened on 29 August 2024".
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.
A$3.6B
Czech Republic and Sweden Sign a Joint Declaration to Extend the Gripen Lease
CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCEDefence trade press dates the Czech-Swedish joint declaration on extending the Gripen lease beyond 2027 to 31 August 2024. The binding contract, for 12 jets to 2035, was still under evaluation in April 2025, so this date is the declaration and not the lease contract.[1]
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.
Perennial Opens in Montgomery
1914, Mulberry Street, Oak Park, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, 36106, United StatesPerennial
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCEThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as August 2024, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.[1]
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.
GPT-4o Update Improves File Handling and Memory
OpenAI updates GPT-4o in ChatGPT to make better use of uploaded files and to save the key parts of a conversation to memory.
NYC's 'World's Tallest Modular Hotel' Plan Collapses
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Pro-H bought the site at 842 Sixth Avenue from Developer Robert Chun for $30 million."
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.
$30M
Dresden's Carola Bridge Collapses Into the Elbe
Dresden, Germany
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Deck C collapsed between 02:58 and 02:59 (UTC+2) on 11 September 2024."
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 o1-preview and o1-mini Released
OpenAI releases o1-preview and o1-mini, the first of a new series of models that spend more time thinking before they respond.
Malaysia Launches Forest City's Special Financial Zone
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "On 20 September 2024, the Honorable Finance Minister II launched the Forest City Special Financial Zone (SFZ)."
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.
$100B
Given the Movie: To the Sea Releases in Japanese Theaters
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE84%Theatrical release date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
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.
As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World Season 2 Premieres
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE74%12 episodesBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
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.
Komal Opens in South Los Angeles
3655, South Grand Avenue, Jefferson, Historic South-Central, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90007, United StatesKomal
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCEThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as September 2024, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.[1]
Chef Fátima Juárez runs a molino and antojitos counter in South Los Angeles, milling heirloom Mexican corn into masa every day.
Klamath River Dams Fully Removed
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The Klamath River restoration project completed the final work to remove the dams from the river".
Crews finished dismantling all four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in 2024, the largest dam-removal and river-restoration project in US history.
Urban Miracle Doctor Premieres
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE53%195 episodes plannedPremiere date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
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.
Scissor Seven Season 5 Premieres
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE82%10 episodesBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
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.
GPT-4o with Canvas Enters Beta
OpenAI trains GPT-4o to work in canvas, a side-by-side writing and coding surface in ChatGPT, as an early beta.
Orb: On the Movements of the Earth Premieres
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE87%25 episodesBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Madhouse's adaptation of Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite begins airing, a historical drama following generations of scholars risking their lives to prove heliocentrism in a fictionalized 15th-century Europe hostile to the idea.
Gushing over Magical Girls Season 2 Announced
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEThe announcement day comes from MyAnimeList's[1][2] news report and Wikipedia[3], both dating it to the Mahoako fan event on October 5, 2024.
A second TV season of Gushing over Magical Girls, the anime of Akihiro Ononaka's comedy manga about a girl who is drafted as a villain and discovers she enjoys tormenting the heroines she idolises, was announced at a fan event.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Conflict Premieres
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE86%14 episodesBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Conflict premieres, the third cour of Studio Pierrot's Bleach adaptation, as Ichigo Kurosaki races to stop Yhwach from destroying the Soul King and the three worlds.