SCHEDULED81% CONFIDENCEMeta's[1][6] Connect agenda lists "Wednesday, September 23 - Meta Connect Keynote at 4:00 p.m. PT", and its save-the-date places Connect "at our campus in Menlo Park, California".
Meta's Connect keynote on September 23 is expected to unveil a new pair of smart glasses that Mark Zuckerberg teased in May, with reports pointing to camera-free 'Luna' glasses shipping this fall.
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEOpenAI's[1][2] own deprecation page, announced 2026-03-24, gives the shutdown date as 24 September 2026. A shutdown date is the vendor's commitment to developers and is occasionally pushed back, never brought forward.
OpenAI switches off 6 models and endpoints on 24 September 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: Videos API, sora-2, sora-2-pro, sora-2-2025-10-06, sora-2-2025-12-08, sora-2-pro-2025-10-06.
South Lawn, The White House, Washington, DC, United StatesThe White House
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEThe White House[1] programme states that "on Thursday morning, September 24, the President and First Lady will host a State Arrival Ceremony". It gives the day but no hour, so the pin is all-day on 24 September.
479 military personnel from every branch, an Armed Forces Full Honor Cordon, a Rose Garden military review and a flyover by a B-2 and four F-22s: the formal welcome for Xi Jinping on the morning of 24 September 2026, his first White House arrival ceremony since 2015.
ESTIMATED76% CONFIDENCEA reported target rather than a fixed date, per aircargonews.net[1][4] quoting Reuters: the airframer "is hopeful the first flight will take place on around 24 September, although there is always the chance that technical issues or inclement weather could push that date back into October"; Airbus[2][5] itself would say only that "the maiden flight is expected later in 2026".
Airbus’ first clean-sheet large freighter is expected to fly from Toulouse around 24 September, opening a roughly 400-hour, nine-month certification campaign flown by MSN700 and MSN701 ahead of a first delivery in the second half of 2027.
SCHEDULED85% CONFIDENCEGiven as scheduled, per help.senate.gov[1][3]: "Date: Thursday, September 24, 2026 / Time: 10:30 AM ET/ 9:30 AM CT / Location: 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building"; it takes place "directly after the HELP Committee votes" on other nominations, so it may start a little later.
The Senate HELP Committee questions Dr. Heidi Overton, President Trump's pick for FDA commissioner, at 10:30 a.m. ET in 430 Dirksen. If confirmed, the White House domestic policy aide would take over an agency that has lost more than 3,000 staff in the past year.
SCHEDULED83% CONFIDENCETesla's own Semi Rollout poster reads "September 24th 2026 | Semi Factory Nevada" and the invitations describe an event on September 24; no start time has been published, so the pin is all day.[1]
Tesla holds an invite-only Semi Rollout on 24 September 2026 to inaugurate its 1.7 million sq ft Semi factory in Sparks, Nevada, built for up to 50,000 electric trucks a year, with factory tours and Semi ride-alongs.
500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, United StatesFX
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCE13 episodes plannedTVmaze's[1][2] forward schedule gives 2026-09-24 as the announced premiere on FX.
American Horror Story is an horror television anthology series. Each season is conceived as a self-contained miniseries, following a disparate set of characters and settings, and a storyline with its own beginning, middle, and end. While some actors appear for more than one year, they play completely different roles in each season. The premiere, "13": After a near-death experience, Ben provides hospice care for a mysterious client in an eerie penthouse. Season 13 starts on FX.
SCHEDULED75% CONFIDENCERocket Lab's mission page and Spaceflight Now's[2] launch schedule both list the window opening at 00:15 UTC on 26 September 2026 from Launch Complex 1 (checked 2026-09-23); launches slip.
Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective. Lifts off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand to Low Earth Orbit.
Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USASpaceX
SCHEDULED77% CONFIDENCESpaceflight Now[3] (checked 2026-09-23): "Window opens at 4:56 a.m. PDT (7:56 a.m. EDT / 1156 UTC)" on 26 September from SLC-4E, Vandenberg; launches slip.
A classified mission for the United States Space Force. It is possibly a batch of classified LEO satellites based on SpaceX’s Starshield satellite bus, based on locations of rocket stage drop zones being exact fits with previous Starlink Group 15 launches. Lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA to Low Earth Orbit. The booster is due to land at Of Course I Still Love You.
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCE10 episodes plannedTVmaze's[1][2] forward schedule gives 2026-09-25 as the announced premiere on STARZ.
After a high-profile mission goes sideways, Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson is pulled out of forced retirement to lead a last-chance experimental S.W.A.T. unit made up of untested, unpredictable young recruits. Hondo must bridge a generational divide, navigate clashing personalities and turn a squad of outsiders into a team capable of protecting the city — and saving the program that made him who he is. Season 1 starts on STARZ.
SCHEDULED77% CONFIDENCERTD's service-change notice says "the initial service on East Colfax Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) will begin along Colfax Avenue starting Sept. 27."[1]
Routes 15 and 15L move into new center-running bus-only lanes on East Colfax Avenue between Broadway and Colorado Boulevard, with passengers boarding at new island stations sheltered by steel arches. It is the first stretch of RTD's 8.5-mile bus rapid transit corridor from downtown Denver to I-225 in Aurora to carry buses, with full BRT service planned for late 2027 or early 2028.
SCHEDULED81% CONFIDENCEThe AP reports "The pay increase is effective starting Sept. 27, the retailer said"; Amazon's own post announces the raise on September 16 without an effective date.[1]
A $1-an-hour raise lifts minimum starting pay for Amazon's U.S. full-time core operations employees to $20, with average pay nearly $24 an hour, part of a more than $1.5 billion investment in higher pay. A 10% employee grocery discount and a lifetime banking benefit come with it.
The Simpsons is the longest running scripted show in US television history. It captures the adventures of Homer, Marge, Maggie, Bart and Lisa who are living in a fictional town called Springfield. The premiere, "The Children's Book Job": A British children's book author comes to Springfield to give a talk at Springfield Elementary School. Homer is tasked with picking her up from the airport, but things go bad from there. Season 38 starts on FOX.
Samsung Digital City, Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, South KoreaSamsung
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCEA target rather than a fixed date, per gsmarena.com[1]: "Samsung[5] Thailand was more forthcoming ... the Galaxy S25 series and the Galaxy Z7 foldables will get One UI 9 on September 28" - a single regional newsroom post that SamMobile[3] calls possibly tentative.
Samsung Thailand's schedule puts the Galaxy S25 series and the Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 on One UI 9 from 28 September 2026, alongside the Galaxy S26, which it moved to the same day. Samsung's global announcement gave no date for older phones.
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEOpenAI's[1][2] own deprecation page, announced 2025-09-26, gives the shutdown date as 28 September 2026 (re-checked 2026-09-23, unchanged). A shutdown date is the vendor's commitment to developers and is occasionally pushed back, never brought forward.
OpenAI switches off 4 models and endpoints on 28 September 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, babbage-002, davinci-002, gpt-3.5-turbo-1106.
Orbital Launch Pad 2, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USASpaceX
SCHEDULED79% CONFIDENCESpaceX[1], quoted 22 Sep 2026: "Now targeting to launch Starship Flight 14 as early as Monday, September 28, pending regulatory approval. The 75-minute launch window will open at 7:15 a.m. CT." Already slipped once from 22 Sep, and the FAA licence was still pending.
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14th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle. 3rd flight of Starship V3 and the first Starship flight to deploy satellites (a group of Starlink satellites known as Starlink Group 31-1) into stable Low Earth Orbit.
The ship is expected to fly at an altitude approximately 275 km above Earth and complete approximately 6 orbits around the planet for nearly 10 hours, with splashdown targeted in the Pacific Ocean west of Chile.
The booster’s primary test objective on Flight 14 will be executing a successful launch, ascent, stage separation, boostback burn, and landing burn at an offshore landing point in the Gulf.
Starship will deliver 26 Starlink V3 satellites to orbit for the first time, which aim to greatly expand the network's capacity and user speeds. Each Starlink V3 satellite will add 1 Tbps of capacity to the constellation. Lifts off from Orbital Launch Pad 2, SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA to Low Earth Orbit. The booster is due to land at Gulf of Mexico.
SCHEDULED81% CONFIDENCEMyAnimeList[1][2] lists the premiere as September 28, 2026; MAL News says episode 1 airs at 12:00 a.m. that day, right after the block opens at 11:30 p.m. on September 27.
The third season of the reincarnation fantasy moves to GeyeG Pictures, and its first episode airs at midnight on September 28, 2026 in the CBC/TBS Agaru Anime block.
Animal Control is a workplace comedy following a group of Animal Control workers whose lives are complicated by the fact that animals are simple, but humans are not. The premiere, "Seahawks and Piglets": Frank leads the team in a work stoppage, but abandons his cause for the ultimate call - recovering the Seahawks' missing mascot. Season 5 starts on FOX.
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCESonos's[1] own newsroom (https://newsroom.sonos.com[2]/269788-sonos-welcomes-beam-ultra-and-sonos-ace-ultra-to-its-system/) states the Beam Ultra was announced with pre-orders on 1 September 2026 and general availability on 29 September 2026. The stated availability day is used as the pin date.
Soundbar with nine drivers delivering true 7.1.2 Dolby Atmos in a similarly sized body to the previous model.
Broadcasting House, City of Westminster, United KingdomBBC iPlayer
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCE6 episodes plannedTVmaze's[1][2] forward schedule gives 2026-09-29 as the announced premiere on BBC iPlayer.
For three police recruits in Belfast, the pressure is immense. Facing criminal gangs and divided communities, they don't know who to trust. The odds are they won't all make it. The premiere, "Eyes": The section is challenged by escalating tensions at a community event, while the investigation into Dana Morgan's drug partnership with Tina McIntyre falters. Season 4 starts on BBC iPlayer.
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEGear Patrol's[3] announcement coverage (https://www.gearpatrol.com/audio/sonos[1][4]-ace-ultra-announcement-price-availability/) and Sonos's newsroom both state the $449 Ace Ultra begins shipping 29 September 2026, after its 1 September announcement. That shipping day is used as the pin date.
Next-generation wireless headphones with enhanced noise cancellation and a Headphone Linking feature.
ESTIMATED78% CONFIDENCENo source gives an exact on-sale day. Sony's[1] own press release of September 7, 2026 (https://sony.mediaroom.com[2]/2026-09-07-Sony-Electronics-Introduces-WH-1000XM4C-M4-2nd-Gen-Wireless-Noise-Cancelling-Headphones-and-Updates-Popular-Mid-and-Entry-Level-Wireless-Headphones-with-WH-CH730N-and-WH-CH530) says only that the WH-1000XM4C 'will be available in Black and Platinum Silver this fall'; retail coverage narrows it to September 2026 with deliveries quoted September 23 - October 1. Dated to the last day of the stated month, September 30, 2026, as an estimate.
Midrange noise-canceling headphones with a 10-band equalizer.
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCENo source gives an exact on-sale day. Gear Patrol's[3][5] piece of September 10, 2026 (https://www.gearpatrol.com/audio/fosi-audio[1][2]-disc-nano-portable-cd-player/) says 'Fosi Audio's Disc Nano CD player will be available later this month. It'll cost $99', i.e. it had not yet gone on sale. Dated to the last day of the stated month, September 30, 2026, as an estimate.
Portable CD player with a half-exposed design, Bluetooth, and a MagSafe ring mount.
ESTIMATED76% CONFIDENCENo source gives an exact on-sale day. Sony's[1] own press release of September 7, 2026 (https://sony.mediaroom.com[3]/2026-09-07-Sony-Electronics-Introduces-WH-1000XM4C-M4-2nd-Gen-Wireless-Noise-Cancelling-Headphones-and-Updates-Popular-Mid-and-Entry-Level-Wireless-Headphones-with-WH-CH730N-and-WH-CH530) states the WH-CH730N is available 'from September 2026', and Engadget's[4] write-up of the same release says Sony 'will ship the WH-CH730N this month'. Dated to the last day of the stated month, September 30, 2026, as an estimate.
Budget wireless headphones with active noise cancellation and a 50-hour battery.
ESTIMATED74% CONFIDENCEAvailability is given only as a month: HiFi Pig's[3] launch report (https://www.hifipig.com/michi-prestige-p430-pre-amplifier-and-michi-prestige-s430-stereo-power-amplifier/) says the Michi Prestige S430 is 'available from September 2026', with no on-sale day stated anywhere. Dated to the last day of that month, 30 September 2026, as an estimate.
Flagship stereo power amplifier rated at 390 watts per channel into 4 ohms.
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