Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

On 9 June 2026 Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced at the ILA Berlin air show that France and Germany had ended the New Generation Fighter at the heart of the Future Combat Air System after Dassault and Airbus could not agree on workshare.

Rackspace is cutting about 15% of its global workforce, roughly 750 of some 5,000 employees, mostly in legacy public-cloud services, to redeploy money into enterprise AI.

The Competition Appeal Tribunal approved a settlement that ends Which?'s GBP 480 million class action against Qualcomm with no payment, finding the claim no longer had a realistic prospect of success.

At 36, Taylor Swift became the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, introduced by Steven Spielberg at the 2026 gala in New York alongside Alanis Morissette, Kenny Loggins and KISS's Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley.

The Grade II-listed west London exhibition halls reopened as a mixed-use district with rooftop restaurants, offices, two hotels and the 3,800-capacity British Airways ARC music venue, which launched the following night. The GBP 1.3 billion transformation, designed by Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC, opens the 14-acre site to the public for the first time in 140 years; the 1,575-seat British Airways Theatre follows in 2027.

Salesforce signed a deal to buy Fin, the customer-service AI agent company formerly called Intercom, for about $3.6 billion to add fast-to-deploy service agents alongside Agentforce.

Robinhood cut about 10% of its full-time employees, roughly 290 people, to flatten management layers, booking about $28 million in charges.

At Augmented World Expo 2026 in Long Beach, Qualcomm launched Snapdragon Reality Elite, an XR platform with 48 TOPS of on-device AI and 4.4K-per-eye graphics that will power XREAL's Project Aura Android XR glasses.