Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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

The Science Based Targets initiative approves Wilmar's goals to cut absolute Scope 1 and 2 emissions 50.4% and Scope 3 emissions 30% by 2032 from 2022, and 90% by 2050, plus land-use (FLAG) targets.

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.

Attackers copied patient data from old Cerner data-migration servers that Oracle Health had not yet moved to Oracle Cloud, and US hospitals were then extorted over it.

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

Hershey signed a merger agreement for LesserEvil, the maker of organic popcorn, puffs and curls cooked in coconut and avocado oil, to add a better-for-you brand beside SkinnyPop, Dot's Pretzels and Pirate's Booty. Hershey paid $769 million in cash at closing; The Wall Street Journal had put the deal at about $750 million.

US District Judge Dale Ho dismissed the five-count federal corruption indictment against New York City Mayor Eric Adams with prejudice, so it cannot be brought again, refusing the Justice Department's request to drop it without prejudice.

Verizon guaranteed new and existing myPlan and myHome customers that their base plan price would not change for three years, with the lock resetting on every plan change, until it quietly stopped offering it on mobile plans in June 2026.

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.

Umamusume: Cinderella Gray begins broadcast, a CygamesPictures prequel to the Uma Musume: Pretty Derby franchise following the anthropomorphized racehorse Oguri Cap as she rises from a rural countryside stable to national stardom.

Transport for London opened the Silvertown Tunnel, a new road crossing under the Thames built to relieve the perennially congested Blackwall Tunnel a few hundred metres away.

Vuori named Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning its newest Vuori Athlete, an NIL deal struck in its 10th-anniversary year as he prepared for his first season as the Longhorns' starter.

A New York Helicopters Bell 206L-4 tour flight from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport broke apart and fell into the Hudson River off Jersey City, killing the pilot and a family of five from Spain.

Alo sued a Colorado shell company named "ALO YOGA ALO, LLC" and two men it says forged documents, posed as its CEO and tried to take over its trademarks in China and at WIPO to sell counterfeits.

Two shoppers filed a class action in Chicago federal court claiming Alo Yoga paid Instagram influencers who promoted its clothes and Alo Moves without disclosing the deals, seeking more than $150 million.

Prosecutors named the three judges who cleared Wilmar, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau as bribery suspects, alleging Rp 60 billion was arranged through lawyers and a court clerk to buy the verdict.

Istanbul's 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia began restoring its dome to withstand a major earthquake, a phase of a 50-year plan to reinforce the building with no fixed finish date.

A magnitude 5.2 quake 5 km south of Julian on the Elsinore fault zone was felt from Los Angeles to Ensenada, closing San Diego City Hall for inspections and knocking boulders onto State Route 76.

OpenAI releases o3, its most powerful reasoning model, and o4-mini, a smaller model optimized for fast, cost-efficient reasoning.

Hershey's first new factory in its hometown in more than 30 years, a 250,000-square-foot plant that makes the chocolate for Reese's, Kit Kat, Symphony and Special Dark, opened with Governor Josh Shapiro. It is Hershey's first fully integrated digital plant and brings more than 125 jobs.