Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

At its Investor Day during Dreamforce, Salesforce set a target of more than $60 billion of revenue by fiscal 2030, excluding Informatica, implying 10%-plus organic growth a year, and its shares rose after hours.

Novelists Molly Tanzer and Jennifer Gilmore filed a proposed class action saying Salesforce trained its xGen language models on the Books3 trove of pirated books.

In Philipp Navratil's first results as CEO, Nestlé's third-quarter organic growth rose to 4.3% with volumes (RIG) back up 1.5%, and it raised its cost-savings target to CHF 3.0 billion by 2027, including about 16,000 job cuts over two years. The shares closed 9.3% higher.

New CEO Philipp Navratil set out a global headcount reduction of about 16,000 - some 12,000 white-collar roles and 4,000 in manufacturing and supply chain - and raised Nestlé's Fuel for Growth savings target to CHF 3.0 billion by the end of 2027. The shares jumped more than 8%.

Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 releases in Japanese theaters, an eight-part anthology film adapting short stories the Chainsaw Man creator wrote between the ages of 17 and 26, produced across six different animation studios.

After Dreamforce closed, Marc Benioff posted that he no longer believed the National Guard was needed in San Francisco and apologized for the concern his remarks caused.

With President Prabowo Subianto watching in front of about Rp 2 trillion in stacked banknotes, the Attorney General handed Rp 13.255 trillion recovered from Wilmar, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau to the finance minister.

Both houses of Japan's National Diet named LDP leader Sanae Takaichi prime minister on 21 October 2025, with 237 votes in the lower house and 125 in the upper house, making her the first woman to lead Japan.

Blackpink's Jisoo designed a special-edition pink suede Alo Sunset Sneaker with Shumon star charms and a hidden 103 label for her birthday, sold for $275 worldwide.

Vantage will spend $15 billion-plus on Lighthouse, four data centers with close to a gigawatt of AI capacity in Port Washington outside Milwaukee, as the Midwest site of Oracle's 4.5 GW Stargate deal with OpenAI.

Ferrero Canada started the world's first production line for Ferrero Rocher chocolate squares at its Brantford, Ontario plant, part of its C$445 million expansion there.

Nike showed Project Amplify, a motorised ankle cuff and carbon-plated shoe built with robotics firm Dephy that it calls the world's first powered footwear system, meant to help everyday runners at 10-12 minute miles go farther with less effort.

The district that runs the Golden Gate Bridge signed off on roughly $1 billion in funding for the final stage of a decades-long project to keep the span standing through a major earthquake.

The FDA approves Bayer's Lynkuet (elinzanetant), the first drug to block both the NK1 and NK3 receptors, as a hormone-free treatment for moderate to severe hot flashes of menopause.

DART began passenger service on the 26-mile Silver Line, a 10-station regional rail route running east-west from Plano through Richardson, Addison, Carrollton and Coppell to DFW International Airport. It is the agency's first rail link from the northern suburbs straight into the airport, and rides were free for the first two weeks.

Miami-Dade's first bus rapid transit service runs 20 miles along US-1 from Dadeland South to Florida City on a rebuilt dedicated busway protected by gate arms and prioritised at rush hour, calling at 14 new BRT stations with air-conditioned waiting areas. The county calls it the longest all-electric BRT service in the nation, paid for with $100 million each from its half-penny transportation surtax, the Florida Department of Transportation and the Federal Transit Administration.

Qualcomm entered the data-center AI market with the AI200 and AI250 accelerator cards and liquid-cooled racks, with 768 GB of memory per card, due in 2026 and 2027; its stock jumped 11% that day.