Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Europe's largest bedding-plant nursery, Emsflower, planted the first crop in its new 14-hectare greenhouse expansion in Emsbüren, Germany on 15 July 2025, growing its glasshouse footprint that already produces up to 500 million plants a year.

Diriyah Company awarded a branch of China Harbour Engineering the contract to build the Arena Superblock: the multi-purpose indoor Diriyah Arena seating 20,000 spectators, three mixed-use office buildings and a parking facility with more than 4,000 spaces. The arena sits on the edge of historic At-Turaif and anchors the Grand Avenue district alongside Diriyah's Grand Mosque.

Eddie Vargas opens his first restaurant in Southwest Detroit, building a menu around his father's birria and Mexican-American home cooking.

Ufotable's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle opens in Japanese theaters, the first of a three-part film series adapting the manga's climactic Infinity Castle arc.

A second season of I Parry Everything, the fantasy comedy about a would-be adventurer who can deflect anything, was announced at Earth Star Novels' 10th-anniversary event.

Production I.G's second season of Kaiju No. 8 begins airing, as Kafka Hibino is transferred to the Defense Force's First Division and has to prove a kaiju can fight on humanity's side.

The Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn and Bryn Mawr stations reopened fully accessible, with elevators and escalators at main entrances, wider platforms, translucent overhead canopies and new public artwork. They sit on 1.3 miles of new track structure, bridges and viaducts built between Lawrence and Bryn Mawr under the CTA's $2.1 billion Red and Purple Modernization Phase One project.

Wit Studio's My Melody & Kuromi begins streaming on Netflix, a Sanrio series following the two rival mascots as they open competing sweet shops in the town of Mariland.

Crews finished excavating the huge cavern in a Japanese mountain that will house the Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino observatory, a step toward the detector's planned start of observations.

Chef-owner Kari Shaughnessy opens a polished, seasonal restaurant in Carlton, a town of about 2,100 in Oregon's wine country.

OpenAI releases two open-weight reasoning models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, for teams that want to run and customize models themselves.

Italy's government gave final approval to build a suspension bridge across the Strait of Messina, reviving a project that had stalled for over 50 years.

OpenAI's GPT-5 becomes ChatGPT's new flagship and default model, rolling out to Free, Plus, Pro and Team users.

Philip Krajeck, of Rolf & Daughters and Folk, opens a calm New American bistro in a former Piggly Wiggly on Dickerson Pike.

Prosecutors charged former TSMC engineer Chen Li-ming, by then at Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit, and two serving TSMC engineers with stealing 2nm trade secrets, seeking 14, 9 and 7 years in Taiwan's first indictment for theft of a national core key technology.

A six-table counter-service Mexican spot in Escondido from chef Juan González and farmer Megan Strom, with most ingredients, including tortilla corn, grown 12 miles away.

Zak Pelaccio, of Manhattan's Fatty Crab, opens a Southeast Asian restaurant in a former Santa Fe furniture workshop, with 24-year-old Stella Achenbach running the kitchen.

Hines finished the 51-storey, 677-foot tower built on air rights over South Station, adding 680,000 square feet of offices, Ritz-Carlton branded residences on the upper floors and an expanded bus terminal beneath it. Construction ran five years from a start in January 2020, after the scheme had sat stalled since its 2008 approval.

Zaha Hadid Architects' 60,000-seat Xi'an International Football Center hosted its first official match, years after construction began in a city better known for ancient dynasties than football.

Africa's largest hydroelectric plant at 5.15 GW, filled over five years amid a long dispute with Egypt and Sudan over Nile flows.

Cambodia's $1.2BN Techo International Airport, its jungle-inspired canopy roof designed by Foster + Partners, opened south of Phnom Penh as the government bets aviation can reshape the country's fortunes.