Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The minimum price of a unit of alcohol in Scotland rises by 15p to 65p, the first increase since minimum unit pricing began in 2018, after MSPs voted to keep the policy past its sunset date.

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.

EssilorLuxottica completed its $1.5 billion cash acquisition of streetwear brand Supreme from VF Corporation, a deal first agreed in July 2024 as VF Corp moved to pay down debt by shedding non-core brands.

LVMH and Formula 1 announced a 10-year global partnership starting in 2025, bringing Louis Vuitton, Moët Hennessy and TAG Heuer into the sport as LVMH became a Global Partner of F1 for the first time.

OpenAI trains GPT-4o to work in canvas, a side-by-side writing and coding surface in ChatGPT, as an early beta.

Denver, Aurora and RTD are rebuilding East Colfax Avenue for the region's first center-running bus rapid transit line, an 8.6-mile, $280 million project that broke ground on 4 October 2024 and is due to finish construction at the end of 2027.

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.

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.

McLaren unveiled the W1 at its Woking headquarters, a twin-turbo V8 hybrid hypercar producing 1,258 hp, doing 0-100 km/h in 2.7 seconds and reaching 350 km/h, limited to 399 units at about $2.1 million each.

Aircraft-maintenance and storage specialist Tarmac Aerosave opened its fourth Airbus A380-capable hangar at Teruel Airport, Europe's largest aircraft boneyard. The 15 million euro building, the world's largest metal-textile hangar, can house one A380 or four narrow-body jets at once.

Natsume's Book of Friends Season 7 begins broadcast, continuing Studio Shuka's adaptation of Yuki Midorikawa's supernatural slice-of-life manga about a boy who can see spirits and works to return the names his grandmother once collected.

Elon Musk showed the two-seat Cybercab, a robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals, and a 20-passenger Robovan at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, promising Cybercab production before 2027 at under $30,000.

China made importers of European brandy, overwhelmingly French cognac, post deposits of 30.6% to 39% from 11 October 2024, days after the EU voted for tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.

The Bering Sea snow crab fishery reopened at noon on 15 October 2024 with a 4.72-million-pound catch limit, its first season since the stock collapsed and the fishery was shut in 2022.

Alo Yoga signed BTS singer Jin as a global ambassador ahead of its first South Korean flagship in Seoul's Dosan Park; his announcement post was valued at $3.6 million in media exposure within a day.

One Piece Fan Letter premieres, a one-off Toei Animation special adapting a chapter of the One Piece novel Mugiwara Stories to mark the 25th anniversary of the One Piece anime, set as the Straw Hats reunite on the Sabaody Archipelago.

The WNBA players' union used its option to end the 2020 labor deal two years early, so the contract would expire after the 2025 season and force talks on higher salaries and revenue sharing.

Anthropic releases an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet that lifts SWE-bench Verified from 33.4% to 49.0% and is the first frontier model to offer computer use, moving a cursor and typing like a person, in public beta.

US District Judge Jennifer Rochon granted the FTC a preliminary injunction halting Tapestry's proposed acquisition of Capri Holdings, ruling that the accessible-luxury handbag rivals were close competitors whose merger would hurt consumers.