Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

OpenAI updates GPT-4o in ChatGPT, moving its training data cutoff from November 2023 to June 2024 and improving its understanding of images.

The sixth season of the Chinese donghua Xingchen Bian continues online, following young hero Qin Yu as he pursues cultivation and revenge across a world of rival sects.

CAL FIRE declared the Eaton Fire 100% contained on 31 January 2025 at 14,021 acres, after it had destroyed 9,419 structures in Altadena and Pasadena and killed 19 people.

CAL FIRE declared the Palisades Fire 100% contained on 31 January 2025 after 24 days, at 23,448 acres, with 6,845 structures destroyed and 12 people dead.

Jin's first campaign as Alo's global ambassador, built around self-love as the root of wellness, went live months after he signed.

Hershey closed 2024 with fourth-quarter net sales up 8.7% to $2.89 billion and adjusted EPS up 33% to $2.69, then warned that surging cocoa prices would cut 2025 adjusted earnings per share by about a third on sales growth of at least 2%.

Massachusetts' largest private employer began cutting management and administrative jobs to close a $250 million budget gap, about 1,500 positions across two rounds.

The 9,988-kilometre Asia Direct Cable, landing at PLDT's Nasugbu station in Batangas, went live in February 2025, linking the Philippines to Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand and China.

Goldman Sachs ended its policy of taking companies public in the US and Western Europe only if they had at least two diverse board members, one of them a woman, citing legal developments after Nasdaq's diversity rule was struck down.

Red Dog Culture House releases Tian Guan Ci Fu Duanpian, a series of short bonus episodes set within the Tian Guan Ci Fu (Heaven Official's Blessing) universe, adapted from Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel.

Ferrero's turnover rose 8.9% to EUR 18.4 billion in the year to 31 August 2024, the year Nutella Ice Cream launched; capital investment grew 18% to EUR 958 million.

A Russian drone struck Chernobyl's €2BN New Safe Confinement shelter, tearing a hole in the roof and starting a fire that burned for weeks.

A second season of CloverWorks' Bocchi the Rock!, adapting Aki Hamaji's four-panel manga about a painfully shy guitarist, is announced at a Kessoku Band live event.

J.C.Staff's A Certain Scientific Railgun is getting a fourth season, with director Tatsuyuki Nagai and the main voice cast returning to Mikoto Misaka's Academy City five years after Railgun T.

At Mar-a-Lago, President Trump signs Executive Order 14216, directing his Domestic Policy Council to propose within 90 days ways to protect IVF access and sharply cut its out-of-pocket and health plan costs.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy withdrew the Federal Highway Administration's approval of Manhattan's $9 congestion toll in a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul; the MTA sued in federal court the same afternoon.

Hershey sold $2 billion of bonds in four $500 million tranches due 2028 to 2035 at coupons of 4.55% to 5.10%, to repay $600 million of notes maturing in 2025 and some commercial paper.

Core net profit fell 26% to US$1.16 billion, with weaker sugar merchandising and no repeat of the 2023 Cosumar sale gain; the total dividend was cut to S$0.16.

Mayor Karen Bass removed Kristin Crowley as Los Angeles fire chief, saying 1,000 firefighters were sent home the morning the fires broke out and that Crowley refused to write an after-action report.

DAMAC International broke ground on The Delmore, a Zaha Hadid Architects-designed condo tower replacing the collapsed Champlain Towers South, with far fewer, far pricier units than before.

OpenAI releases a research preview of GPT-4.5, its largest and best model for chat, scaling up unsupervised learning rather than reasoning.

PLDT's 2024 telco core income rose 2% to ₱35.1 billion, in line with guidance, and reported net income jumped 21% to ₱32.3 billion; the board declared a ₱47 final dividend for ₱97 a share in all, a 60% payout.

Hong Kong opened Kai Tak Sports Park, a 50,000-seat stadium and leisure complex built on the runway of the old Kai Tak Airport, closed since 1998.

San Diego FC drew 0-0 with St. Louis CITY SC in its first-ever home match, watched by 34,506 fans, the largest crowd for a sporting event in Snapdragon Stadium's history.