Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

TxDOT started the rebuild of eight miles of I-35 through central Austin, which lowers the mainlanes, removes the 1970s upper decks and adds two non-tolled high-occupancy-vehicle managed lanes in each direction from US 290 East to SH 71/Ben White Boulevard. First work was the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard bridge; the corridor is not finished until 2033.

Vuori's first international flagship, a two-floor store of just under 4,000 sq ft at 83-85 Regent Street, opened on 31 October 2024 in the former Fabletics space.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o mini for ChatGPT's Free, Plus and Team users and for logged-out users.

Nevadans approved Question 6 with 64.36% of the vote, the first of two votes needed to write a right to abortion until fetal viability into the state constitution.

MAPPA recuts the Final Chapters specials into a single theatrical feature, Attack on Titan: The Last Attack, adding new footage to close out the anime adaptation of Hajime Isayama's manga on the big screen.

An $825 million secondary tender offer led by General Atlantic and Stripes valued Vuori at $5.5 billion, up from $4 billion in 2021, with General Atlantic's Andrew Ferrer joining the board.

Tapestry and Capri Holdings scrapped their planned merger after the FTC's court win, with Tapestry agreeing to reimburse Capri $45.1 million in expenses rather than keep fighting past the deal's outside date.

Austria's motorway operator ASFINAG opened the new Danube Valley Bridge and its connecting tunnels in Linz, the world's longest earth-anchored suspension bridge, completing the first phase of the A26 Westring motorway.

About 700 Culinary Local 226 and Bartenders Local 165 workers walked out of the off-Strip Virgin Hotels Las Vegas in the union's first open-ended strike in over 22 years, holding 24/7 picket lines until members ratified a five-year contract on 22 January 2025.

René Magritte's 1954 L'Empire Des Lumières, from the estate of interior designer Mica Ertegun, sold for $121.2 million at Christie's in New York, a record for the artist and for Surrealist art at auction, reportedly to billionaire Ken Griffin.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o for all paid ChatGPT tiers with more natural, audience-aware writing and deeper work with uploaded files.

Terminal 3 broke ground south of the existing terminals as the centrepiece of Pudong's phase-IV expansion, designed for 50 million passenger trips a year. When the programme is finished the airport will have three terminals, one satellite terminal and four runways, with terminal floor space above 1.7 million square metres.

Greenland's capital opened its new international airport on November 28, 2024, ending Nuuk's dependence on connecting flights for long-haul travel.

Hong Kong International Airport's HK$141.5BN Three-Runway System expansion reached full three-runway operation, capping an eight-year project to add capacity on reclaimed land.

Greece's Thessaloniki Metro Line 1 opened to the public, a driverless 9.6km line whose stations doubled as archaeological digs after more than 300,000 ancient artefacts were uncovered during construction.

The third season of Wan Jie Du Zun, a Chinese cultivation-fantasy donghua from Ruo Hong Culture that continues its web-novel adaptation with a planned 224-episode run. The story follows its protagonist's climb through a world of competing cultivation sects and hidden immortal realms, building directly on the events of the first two seasons.

LVMH's Cheval Blanc opened its sixth hotel, a 52-villa resort curled around Anse Intendance beach on Mahé island, designed by architect Jean-Michel Gathy with a spa created with Guerlain.

Monaco inaugurated Mareterra, a $2 billion, six-hectare land reclamation district built into the Mediterranean to ease the tiny principality's chronic space crisis.

UNESCO inscribed Japan's traditional knowledge and skills of sake-making with koji mold on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at the committee's 19th session in Asunción, Paraguay.

Shenman Entertainment streams Cang Yuan Tu 2, continuing the Chinese action-fantasy ONA's story directly from where its first season left off.

Notre-Dame Cathedral reopened to worshippers and visitors on December 7, 2024, five and a half years after a fire gutted its roof and spire.

Sparkly Key Animation releases Tunshi Xingkong Movie: Xueluo Dalu, a Swallowed Star feature-length special in which Luo Feng travels to the trial grounds of the Snow Fall Continent to grow strong enough to protect Earth.

The full US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit voted 9-8 to vacate the SEC's approval of Nasdaq's rule requiring listed companies to have a woman and a minority or LGBTQ+ director on the board or explain why not.

Zalando agreed to acquire German rival About You for €6.50 a share, a roughly 12% premium to analysts' median price target, with major About You shareholders representing about 73% of its shares - including the Otto family - already committed to accepting the offer.