Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Verizon's board authorised up to $25 billion of share repurchases and raised the quarterly dividend 2.5 percent to $0.7075, part of a plan to return about $55 billion to shareholders through 2028.

Verizon added 616,000 postpaid phones in the fourth quarter of 2025, its best quarter since 2019, met its 2025 guidance and set a 2026 outlook of adjusted EPS of $4.90 to $4.95.

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.

Justin Rose, 45, closed with a 70 at Torrey Pines to finish at 23-under 265, breaking Tiger Woods' 1999 tournament record and winning by seven shots.

The day after its funding plan, Oracle sold $25 billion of notes in eight tranches and $5 billion of 6.50% mandatory convertible preferred stock, drawing what it called a record, substantially oversubscribed order book.

The NFL's fan festival took over 500,000 square feet of Moscone Center for Super Bowl week, with all 59 Super Bowl rings, the Lombardi Trophy and a 40-yard dash, ahead of the game in Santa Clara.

Barrows v. Oracle says Oracle misled investors that its AI data-center spending for OpenAI would quickly turn into revenue, covering stock bought June-December 2025.

OpenAI restores GPT-5.2 Thinking's Extended thinking level in ChatGPT, undoing a reduction made by mistake in January.

The EEOC filed a subpoena enforcement action against Nike in federal court in St. Louis on 4 February 2026, seeking workforce data for its probe of whether Nike's DEI targets led to discrimination against white workers.

Jack Draper starred in Vuori's campaign for the HardKore Short, its most performance-focused take on the Kore Short, in ultralight ripstop at $98.

Hershey ended a cocoa- and tariff-hit 2025 with full-year net income down 60% to $883 million on sales up 4.4% to $11.7 billion, then guided 2026 to 4-5% sales growth and a 30-35% rebound in adjusted earnings per share.