Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Nike told a special works council at its European Logistics Campus in Laakdal, Belgium, on 10 March 2026 that it plans to cut 411 jobs, 330 of them weekend-shift posts handling online orders, citing falling online sales.

Oracle grew revenue 22% to $17.2 billion, its first quarter in over 15 years with organic revenue and adjusted EPS both up 20% or more, raised its fiscal 2027 revenue forecast to $90 billion, and the stock jumped 9% the next day.

Thirty-two IEA member nations agreed on 11 March 2026 to release 400 million barrels between them after Iranian attacks slowed tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. The American share was 172 million barrels, the largest US release ever ordered, and Secretary Wright said it would take about 120 days to deliver.

A 6.4-million-square-foot garage beside the 405, the second-largest concrete building in the US after the Pentagon, now holds all 12 on-airport rental car brands.

Broadcom's Tomahawk 6, the first 102.4 Tbps Ethernet switch chip and double the bandwidth of Tomahawk 5, moved into production-volume shipments less than three quarters after its first samples.

The first tranche of the 172-million-barrel release went out as a request for proposals on 13 March 2026, covering 86 million barrels from Bryan Mound, West Hackberry and Bayou Choctaw. Bids were due the following Tuesday, and the borrowers must hand the oil back with extra barrels on top.

Lululemon's first Polish store opened in Warsaw's Westfield Arkadia through franchise partner Arion Retail Group, its 100th store in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Sable Offshore resumed shipping crude from Las Flores Canyon to Pentland Station through the Santa Ynez Pipeline System on March 14, 2026, complying with a Defense Production Act order issued by Energy Secretary Chris Wright. The company expects first sales by April 1, 2026 at a gross oil rate of 50,000 Bbls/d, which it says would raise domestic crude supply into the California market by about 17%.

Boston's new NWSL club lost its first-ever match 1-0 to reigning champion Gotham FC, on a 55th-minute Esther González goal, before an announced 30,207, a league record for an expansion team's home opener. The club splits its first season between Gillette Stadium and Centreville Bank Stadium before moving to White Stadium.

A measles outbreak that began in mid-March 2026 has killed 909 people with suspected symptoms and confirmed nearly 20,000 cases, by the Directorate General of Health Services' count as of 10 September. It is still running.

OpenAI updates GPT-5.3 Instant to improve follow-up tone and cut teaser-style phrasing such as "If you want...".

Salesforce prepaid $25 billion to five banks and took delivery of about 103 million of its own shares, roughly 80% of the total, in what it called the largest accelerated share repurchase in history.

Oracle's Java conference ran three days in Redwood Shores, opening with the "Java for an AI World" keynote on Java 26's release day and closing with a community keynote.

Reenactors, cannon fire and a mounted Washington marked 250 years since the British left Boston, at a newly restored Dorchester Heights Monument rededicated by the National Park Service.

OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.4 mini in ChatGPT for Free and Go users through the Thinking feature, and as a rate-limit fallback for GPT-5.4 Thinking.

From 18 March 2026 Harry Reid International Airport set daily heat records 12 days running, broke the all-time March high of 93°F five times and peaked at 98°F on 25 March, in a month that averaged 73°F, 12.2°F above normal, with no rain.