Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Google releases two real-time voice models: Gemini 3.8 Live, built for low-cost fluid dialogue that sees through the camera and switches among 97 languages, and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, which reasons while it speaks and tops Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech quality index at 82.6.

Diablo IV's 30th-anniversary season brings back Deckard Cain, the Prime Evils Baal, Mephisto and Diablo, and legacy loot from across the series.

Universal Music Group and Capitol Records sued the distributor DistroKid in Delaware federal court, accusing it of flooding Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube with AI-generated tracks and unlicensed copies of their recordings while posing as an artist-first service.

New Balance sued Decathlon in Boston federal court, saying the logo on its Kiprun running shoes, a 'K' that becomes an 'N' when mirrored on the other side of the shoe, is virtually identical to New Balance's famous 'N'.

Nike expanded its board to 12 and appointed Alexandre Arnault, 34, deputy chief executive of LVMH's Moët Hennessy and a former Tiffany and RIMOWA executive, as a director effective immediately.

JDK 27 shipped with nine JEPs led by hybrid post-quantum key exchange for TLS 1.3 and G1 as the default garbage collector everywhere, plus JavaFX 27 and Helidon 27.

Wonder is cutting 533 jobs between 16 September 2026 and 8 January 2027 as it closes its Cranford and Fairfield, New Jersey production facilities and consolidates into a new plant in Swedesboro.

Chief Executive John Lee announced Hong Kong's First Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) at a special Legislative Council meeting, aligning the city with China's 15th Five-Year Plan, and delivered his 2026 Policy Address straight after.

At Tokyo's Physical AI Summit the AI Robot Association showed the first prototypes from its NEDO-backed contest to build a domestic general-purpose robot. ugo's entry, the wheeled dual-arm Nova, was developed in about six months and goes into mass production in 2027.

Nike and Lululemon stipulated to dismiss, with prejudice, Nike's 2022 suit claiming Lululemon's Mirror home gym infringed its fitness-tech patents, after the patent office struck down most of the asserted claims.

The Pokémon Trading Card Game's 30th-anniversary expansion, the first set released simultaneously worldwide, puts a foil card in every slot, a Pikachu rare in every pack and 30 different Pikachu illustrations.

At its Investor Day during Dreamforce 2026, Salesforce held to more than $63 billion of revenue by fiscal 2030, above analysts' $59.2 billion, and said it had returned 190% of this year's free cash flow through its record buyback.

A coalition for AI data centers that throttle their grid draw when the power system is stressed, in exchange for faster and larger grid connections; its backers say flexibility could unlock 100 GW on the existing US grid.

In its first peer-reviewed benchmark, NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 rack posted up to 3.7x the throughput of GB300 NVL72 on Qwen3-VL and 2.5x on DeepSeek-R1, submitted in the preview category of MLCommons' MLPerf Inference v6.1 round.