Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

OpenAI brings GPT-5.4 Thinking to ChatGPT, a frontier model combining GPT-5.3-Codex's coding with better work across tools, documents and spreadsheets.

Maggie Gyllenhaal writes and directs a dark, comedic reimagining of the Bride of Frankenstein, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale.

Thirty-two IEA member nations agreed on 11 March 2026 to release 400 million barrels between them after Iranian attacks slowed tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. The American share was 172 million barrels, the largest US release ever ordered, and Secretary Wright said it would take about 120 days to deliver.

The first tranche of the 172-million-barrel release went out as a request for proposals on 13 March 2026, covering 86 million barrels from Bryan Mound, West Hackberry and Bayou Choctaw. Bids were due the following Tuesday, and the borrowers must hand the oil back with extra barrels on top.

Sable Offshore resumed shipping crude from Las Flores Canyon to Pentland Station through the Santa Ynez Pipeline System on March 14, 2026, complying with a Defense Production Act order issued by Energy Secretary Chris Wright. The company expects first sales by April 1, 2026 at a gross oil rate of 50,000 Bbls/d, which it says would raise domestic crude supply into the California market by about 17%.

OpenAI updates GPT-5.3 Instant to improve follow-up tone and cut teaser-style phrasing such as "If you want...".

At GTC 2026, Huang said he expects purchase orders for Blackwell and Vera Rubin to reach $1 trillion through 2027, up from the $500 billion outlook given the previous year.

The FDA approved Johnson & Johnson's Icotyde (icotrokinra), a once-daily pill and the first targeted oral peptide to block the IL-23 receptor, for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis in adults and children 12 and older weighing at least 40 kg.

OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.4 mini in ChatGPT for Free and Go users through the Thinking feature, and as a rate-limit fallback for GPT-5.4 Thinking.

The first episode of Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 1st Stage releases, kicking off david production's adaptation of Hirohiko Araki's seventh JoJo part as an alternate-history transcontinental horse race across 1890s America.

An adaptation of Andy Weir's novel starring Ryan Gosling as a lone astronaut who wakes with no memory, tasked with saving Earth from a species-ending threat to the sun.

Jack-of-All-Trades, Party of None, animation studio42's adaptation of the fantasy about an enchanter cast out of the hero party, announced a second season after its final episode aired.

Abbott closed its $105-a-share cash purchase of Cologuard maker Exact Sciences, which became a wholly owned Abbott subsidiary; Exact Sciences shares last traded on Nasdaq on 20 March.

Pierce Manufacturing brought Phase I of its redesigned High Flow custom chassis production line online at its Appleton, Wisconsin campus, cutting chassis lead times by more than three months. The line is part of a $150 million-plus modernization of Pierce's Wisconsin, Florida, and Tennessee plants.

Doga Kobo's adaptation of [Oshi no Ko] will end with a fourth and final season, revealed with a teaser video the moment the third season's one-hour finale aired.

MAPPA confirmed a fourth season of Jujutsu Kaisen, subtitled The Culling Game Part 2, off the back of the third season's finale, continuing Gege Akutami's sorcerer death-game arc.

A second season of the Iseleve anime, based on Miku's light novel about a bullied teen who levels up in another world and brings his new powers home, was announced on the AnimeJapan 2026 stage.

The ground reopened with Mexico against Portugal after closing in May 2024 for a rebuild covering modern screens, new lighting and redeveloped press areas and entrances, leaving a capacity of about 90,000. It will host five 2026 World Cup matches, making it the only stadium to stage three tournaments.

AP-HP started construction on the former Stellantis plant site in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine after two years of demolition and decontamination, with the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis signing the hospital's building permit on 24 September 2025. The campus will bring together a new hospital taking the medical and surgical work of the Bichat and Beaujon hospitals, a Universite Paris Cite health faculty and student housing, complete by 2032.

The Shanghai company said it had built its 10,000th humanoid, having taken nearly two years over the first thousand and just three months over the last five thousand - a fourfold acceleration it presents as the industry crossing from pilots into large-scale commercial deployment.

Five of Raleigh's chefs, restaurateurs and bar owners open a neighbourhood restaurant and bodega on Brookside Drive, with Cheetie Kumar as executive chef.

Lilly agrees to buy Centessa Pharmaceuticals, maker of the orexin agonist cleminorexton for narcolepsy, for $38 a share in cash (about $6.3 billion) plus a CVR worth up to $1.5 billion more; the deal closed on 24 June 2026.

Dorohedoro's second season streams on Netflix, with MAPPA continuing the story of the amnesiac, lizard-headed Caiman as he closes in on the sorcerer responsible for his cursed appearance.

Work started on the foundational infrastructure for a 65,000-seat domed stadium on the old RFK Stadium site in southeast Washington, with the full groundbreaking held back to early 2027 and opening expected in 2030. The Commanders are putting up $2.7 billion towards a project projected at $3.8 billion; the District is spending $500 million on infrastructure and will own the building.

Jon Sybert and Jill Tyler replace Tail Up Goat with a counter-service New American restaurant in the same space.

8-bit begins broadcasting That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4, continuing Rimuru Tempest's story as his push for a human-monster alliance draws resistance from rival demon lords.

Shenman Entertainment streams Cang Yuan Tu 3, continuing the Chinese action-fantasy ONA's story of swordsman Meng Chuan directly from where its second season left off.

Sunrise brings Rumiko Takahashi's Taisho-era yokai mystery MAO to NHK as a two-cour TV anime.

Inter Miami played its first match at the 26,700-seat Nu Stadium, the centrepiece of the 131-acre Miami Freedom Park built on the former Melreese golf course beside Miami International Airport, drawing 2-2 with Austin FC. The club had played out of Fort Lauderdale since 2020 while the site was fought over and built.

Nippon Sangoku begins streaming, a science-fiction drama set after Japan collapses into three warring successor states, following former agricultural officer Aoteru Misumi as he rises to reunify the country.

A third season of How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord, subtitled ULT, was announced for the ecchi isekai comedy about a socially awkward gamer summoned into his MMO world as its overpowered demon-lord avatar.

The Korea Football Association's national training campus, designed by UNStudio around a 'total football' philosophy, officially opened.

White Fox's Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4 begins broadcast, continuing Subaru's search for a way to save Rem, Crusch, and Julius after the costly battle at Priestella.

Studio PuYUKAI's Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Kyuukei Jikan (Break Time) 4th Season begins streaming, the latest run of chibi-style comedy shorts spun off from the Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- franchise.

DC Water lowered the tunnel boring machine Mary into a 100-foot-deep shaft in West Potomac Park and started her north towards Georgetown University, the first 2.4 miles of a 5.5-mile combined sewer overflow tunnel. The $819 million tunnel is part of the Clean Rivers Project and will cut Potomac overflow events from 74 a year to four; a second Herrenknecht machine, Emily, bores south towards Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling.

The Chinese ONA Nitian Xie Shen: Nian Fan begins release, continuing the Nitian Xie Shen action-fantasy story into its next arc.

Anthropic makes Claude Opus 4.7 generally available, a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, especially on the hardest tasks.

DOE had asked for up to 30 million barrels of sweet crude from West Hackberry on 9 April 2026; eight days later it awarded contracts for 26 million of them, with deliveries starting at once. By then more than 10 million barrels of the wider exchange had already reached the market.

Santa Barbara County Judge Donna Geck refused to lift the injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting its Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, rejecting for the first time the company's claim that a federal Defense Production Act order overrides California law. She set a May 22 hearing on whether Sable, which resumed moving oil in March, should be held in contempt.

MARTA started service on the Rapid A-Line, a five-mile route with 14 new stations linking downtown Atlanta to Capitol Gateway, Summerhill, Peoplestown and the BeltLine's Southside Trail, much of it in dedicated bus lanes. Construction continues along the corridor, with temporary stops standing in at five stations until final revenue service in the autumn.

LACMA's permanent collection moved into a new home on 19 April 2026: a 275-metre curved building of glass and concrete that steps over Wilshire Boulevard on splayed piers, lifting 10,220 square metres of galleries some nine metres above the street. It completes a campus rebuild two decades in the making, replacing four of the museum's ageing buildings with a single level where the collection is shown without a fixed route through it.

The 2.25-mile automated people mover linking LAX's terminals to the Metro Rail system and the rental car centre began demonstration running without passengers, aiming for 30 consecutive days of error-free operation before it can carry anyone. Construction was originally due to finish in March 2023; Los Angeles World Airports has since agreed to more than $880 million in dispute payments on top of the $4.9 billion, 25-year contract, and has not announced an opening date.