Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

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

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.

The DanMachi franchise confirmed a sixth anime season of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? at its "Aedes Vesta" 10th anniversary event, following the Goddess of the Harvest arc of season 5.

Toronto's long-delayed 19km Eglinton Crosstown light rail line entered service as TTC Line 5, six years behind its original 2020 target.

OpenAI updates GPT-5.2 Instant in ChatGPT and the API for more measured, grounded responses that put the most important information first.

Emerald Fennell directs Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in an adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel about the destructive love between Heathcliff and Catherine on the Yorkshire moors.

Two more of the ten Common Central Secretariat blocks on Kartavya Path, along with the Seva Teerth complex, were inaugurated, taking to three the number of buildings in service in the Central Vista's replacement for Shastri, Nirman and Krishi Bhawan. The first three blocks, designed by HCP and built by Shapoorji Pallonji, cost 3,690 crore rupees and each spans about 150,000 sq m over seven floors and two basements.

A two-week stopgap for DHS alone ran out on 14 February 2026, and the department stayed unfunded for 76 days - the longest shutdown of a single agency in US history - until the President signed a bipartisan bill on 30 April.

Barcelona's basilica tops out its 172.5-metre central tower, making it the world's tallest church, timed for the centenary of Antoni Gaudí's death. Estimated date.

Studio Khara debuts a new short Evangelion animation at the "EVANGELION:30+" 30th-anniversary fan event in Yokohama Arena, marking three decades since Neon Genesis Evangelion's original broadcast.

Khara and CloverWorks revealed a brand-new Evangelion anime series at the close of the franchise's 30th anniversary festival, with NieR creator Yoko Taro writing and Kazuya Tsurumaki and Tōko Yatabe directing.

Four months after presenting Blue Jay as its newest warehouse system - a single workspace where several robotic arms pick, stow and consolidate about 75% of the item types Amazon stocks - Amazon said it was no longer using it in operations, keeping only the underlying technology.

Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox return to the Ghostface franchise in a film written and directed by original series creator Kevin Williamson.

A Santa Barbara Superior Court upheld its July preliminary injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting the Las Flores onshore pipeline system that ruptured at Refugio State Beach in 2015, requiring 10 court days' notice before any restart. The ruling also clarifies that the Trump administration's December move to seize control of the system and issue an emergency special permit does not affect the court's prior decision.

Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha, of Ha's Snack Bar, open a French bistro seasoned by Ha's Vietnamese heritage on Eldridge Street.

Vinnie Cimino and Andrew Watts, of Cordelia, open a wood-fired restaurant in Ohio City inspired by the Istrian Peninsula.

Thundray's Release that Witch begins release, an ONA adapting Er Gen's web novel about a modern man reborn as a prince who rescues persecuted witches and fuses their magic with early industrial technology to defend his frontier territory.

OpenAI updates GPT-5.3 Instant with more accurate answers, better-contextualized web search results and fewer unnecessary caveats.