Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Nia DaCosta directs the second film in Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's post-apocalyptic trilogy, continuing straight from 28 Years Later.

Madhouse returns with a second season of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, following the elf mage Frieren and her party through the perilous Northern Plateau on their way to the ancient capital of Aureole.

The 35,000-square-metre market at the head of Blackwattle Bay opened its doors at 7am, replacing the 1966 shed two kilometres away in Pyrmont and roughly doubling retail space across more than 40 food and seafood operators. Designed by Danish architects 3XN/GXN with BVN and Aspect Studios and built by Multiplex, it adds over 6,000 square metres of public open space on the harbour foreshore.

The UK government granted planning permission for China's new London embassy at the historic Royal Mint Court site, ending years of delays and security objections.

Verizon closed its $20 billion purchase of Frontier Communications, making it a wholly owned subsidiary and extending Verizon's fiber reach to almost 30 million passings across 31 states and DC.

Cosmic Princess Kaguya!, a Studio Colorido and Studio Chromato reimagining of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, streams on Netflix, blending Japan's oldest folktale with music and modern animation.

OpenAI updates GPT-5.2 Instant's default personality to be more conversational and better at adapting its tone to context.

Christophe Gans returns to the Silent Hill film series with a reboot loosely based on the video game Silent Hill 2, starring Jeremy Irvine and Hannah Emily Anderson.

Aramco priced $4 billion of US dollar bonds in four tranches, from three to 30 years at coupons of 4% to 6%, drawing about $21 billion of orders. It was the company's first bond sale of 2026, listed in London.

The last structural beam went up on Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's 26-story inpatient tower in University City, 1.3 million square feet on Osler Circle with a private room for every patient. The $2.59 billion building opens in 2028.

The rebuild of the north end of SEA's main terminal added the airport's first at-scale automated bag drops, a redesigned Checkpoint 6, a new Bridge Level check-in, upgraded baggage claim devices and eight major public art installations. The Port of Seattle and Alaska Airlines marked the finish of major construction, the first of a run of Upgrade SEA projects due to complete before the summer's international soccer tournament.

The Paris prosecutor's public-health unit opened five investigations, for deception endangering health and endangering life, into infant formula sold by Nestlé, Lactalis, Danone, Babybio and La Marque en moins.

Verizon closed its purchase of Starry, a fixed wireless provider serving about 100,000 apartment-building customers in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Denver and Washington with millimeter-wave technology.

Emiliano and Kristal Marentes, owners of the acclaimed Elemi, open a strip-mall taquería in El Paso.

A stopgap covering six of the twelve appropriations bills expired on 31 January 2026, closing roughly half of federal agencies until the House passed a funding package 217-214 on 3 February.

Star Detective Precure! begins broadcast, the 23rd entry in Toei's long-running magical-girl franchise, following student Anna Akechi after a mysterious pendant flings her back nearly three decades to team up with an aspiring detective and transform into a Precure.

OpenAI restores GPT-5.2 Thinking's Extended thinking level in ChatGPT, undoing a reduction made by mistake in January.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex, its most capable agentic coding model, the first to combine the Codex and GPT-5 training stacks.

Anthropic upgrades its smartest model with Claude Opus 4.6, industry-leading across agentic coding, computer use, tool use, search and finance.