Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The fifth season of the Chinese donghua Wu Dong Qiankun continues online, adapting Tian Can Tu Dou's web novel about Lin Dong's rise through a world of martial cultivation.

The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 premieres, continuing the mystery series animated by TOHO animation STUDIO and OLM as court apothecary Maomao investigates a new wave of intrigue brought by a visiting merchant caravan.

OpenAI rolls out a beta of tasks, letting GPT-4o in ChatGPT carry out one-time reminders and recurring actions at a future time.

The fourth season of the Chinese donghua Fanren Xiu Xian Zhuan begins streaming, continuing Original Force and Wonder Cat Animation's adaptation of the cultivation web novel behind it.

SK8 the Infinity EXTRA PART is an original-video omnibus that reunites the SK8 the Infinity cast for four standalone slice-of-life stories following the main TV series and film.

Ne Zha 2 (Nezha Zhi Mo Tong Nao Hai) opens in Chinese theaters over the Lunar New Year, a Coco Cartoon-animated sequel following the young deities Ne Zha and Ao Bing as they seek to restore their dissolving bodies.

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.

OpenAI releases o3-mini, a cost-efficient reasoning model for coding, math and science with three adjustable reasoning efforts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On March 5, 2025, a New York Air National Guard LC-130H Skibird touched down on freshwater ice at Parsons Lake, Canada, a first for the unit’s ski-equipped Hercules fleet.

Eric Pham opens his first sit-down restaurant in St. Anthony Park, a tribute to his mother Khue Pham of Minneapolis's Quang, with most mains at $21 or less.

The second Mononoke film, Chapter II: The Ashes of Rage, opens in Japanese theaters, continuing the Medicine Seller's story as he is drawn into a spirit-haunted Edo-era harem consumed by rivalry and hidden rage.

Studio Drive releases the KONOSUBA 3 -Bonus Stage- OVA, two extra episodes bundled with the third season sending Kazuma's party on an explosion-fueled fight against an oncoming typhoon and a comic case of mistaken identity.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o to feel more intuitive and collaborative, with cleaner frontend code, better instruction following and clearer communication.

Production I.G's Kaiju No. 8 compilation film opens in Japan, recutting the first season around a new sequence in which intelligent kaiju attack a Defense Force base.

Felipe Oliveira and Hiro Tagai, of ramen bar Koyoté, open an itameshi restaurant - Japanese-Italian cooking - in Salt Lake City.

Michael and Courtney Zentner open a 24-seat bistro in a former corner grocery in Charleston, applying French technique to Lowcountry ingredients.

Paper Plane Animation Studio's original series To Be Hero X begins streaming, set in a world where public trust is quantified and channeled into ordinary people's superpowers.