Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Zaha Hadid Architects' single-mast Danjiang Bridge across the Tamsui River, now the world's longest single-mast cable-stayed bridge, is set to open to traffic in Taipei.

Johnny Curiel opens a small corn-centred Mexican tasting-menu restaurant in Denver, his sixth opening in three years; the menu runs to 18 courses.

Egypt has inaugurated the $15BN New Delta project, moving recycled water across the desert to reclaim up to 2.2 million feddans of new farmland west of the Nile Delta.

B&W sold 12.4 million new shares at $18.50 each, raising about $230 million with the underwriters' extra shares, and Applied Digital bought about 540,500 of them. The money is meant to expand steam turbine and boiler production for AI data centre power plants.

People on the top 12 mg dose of Lilly's triple-hormone shot retatrutide lost an average of 28.3% of their body weight (70.3 lbs) over 80 weeks, and 30.3% by two years in the extension - weight loss at the level of bariatric surgery.

Saudi Arabia's NEOM authority paused further construction on The Line, its 170km linear megacity, until after 2030 amid a sweeping scale-back of the project's ambitions.

Lilly moves into infectious disease by agreeing to buy Curevo (shingles), LimmaTech Biologics (staph and other bacteria) and Vaccine Company (Epstein-Barr virus) for up to $3.83 billion combined in cash.

MAPPA confirmed a third season of Dorohedoro at the end of Season 2's finale, keeping Caiman's grimy hunt through the Hole and the sorcerers' realm going.

OpenAI updates GPT-5.5 Instant in ChatGPT and the API to be easier to read and better paced, with fewer long or bullet-heavy answers.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8, stronger across coding, agentic tasks and professional work, with the consistency to keep working on long-running tasks.

Daniel Patterson, best known for Coi in San Francisco, returns to fine dining with a 12-course tasting menu on Melrose Avenue, with his wife Sarah Lewitinn and pastry chef Matt Tinder.

A two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals, meant to be built on a high-volume 'unboxed' assembly line. Estimated date.

At GTC Taipei, NVIDIA announced the first open humanoid reference design: a Unitree H2 Plus chassis with Sharpa Wave five-finger tactile hands for the body, and Jetson Thor compute plus the open Isaac GR00T stack for the brain, aimed at academic robotics labs.

A 20-course, $295 tasting menu staged as theatre: 26 diners at a time move from a graffiti lounge to a projection-mapped communal room, past the open kitchen and into a chandeliered dining room, two or three seatings a night.

Denver Water finished raising Colorado's Gross Dam by 131 feet, topping out the concrete work that will nearly triple the reservoir's storage capacity.

Mattel's He-Man franchise gets a live-action feature, with Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Adam and Jared Leto as Skeletor, directed by Travis Knight.

The quiet supersonic demonstrator reached Mach 1.1 and 43,400 feet on an 81-minute flight from Edwards Air Force Base, the first time it exceeded the speed of sound. A NASA F-15 chase plane flew alongside, its own booms drowning out anything the X-59 made.

Babcock & Wilcox is collaborating with TerraSpark on the TerraSpark Energy Campus near the Mount Storm power complex in Grant County, West Virginia, with an expected scope of four 400 MW supercritical boilers, full emissions controls and construction. The campus pairs a 1.6 GW coal plant with Mantel's carbon capture.

The MTA started the major construction stage of the 1.5-mile extension that carries the Q from 96th Street to Harlem-125th Street, with new stations at 106th, 116th and 125th Streets. A tunnel boring machine goes underground in early 2027 and trains are due in 2032.

Cosm opened a 70,000-square-foot, three-level venue built around an 87-foot 12K LED dome in Atlanta's Gulch, showing Game 4 of the NBA Finals on its first night. It is the first attraction finished inside Centennial Yards, the $5 billion, 50-acre redevelopment of the rail gulch between State Farm Arena and Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

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 donghua Fanren Xiu Xian Zhuan Di Wu Ji (A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, fifth season) begins streaming, continuing Original Force and Wonder Cat Animation's adaptation of Wang Yu's xianxia novel.

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.