Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sparkly Key Animation's Mu Shen Ji begins streaming, a Chinese donghua following Qin Mu, a young man raised by nine mysterious elders in the remote village of Can Lao, as he uncovers the dangers of the forsaken land of Da Xu.

Texas kicked off construction on its $13 billion North Houston Highway Improvement Project, a decades-long rebuild of one of America's deadliest interstates.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A second season of 2.5 Dimensional Seduction, the anime of Yu Hashimoto's cosplay comedy about an otaku club president and the junior who wants him as her photographer, was announced at the end of the first season's finale.

A University of Miami-led study using satellite radar found dozens of Miami high-rises, including some under construction, are subsiding by millimetres a year.