Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

A 377-metre, 1,004-room supertall hotel on Dubai Marina's waterfront opened as the world's tallest hotel, its curved concrete form engineered to shed wind loads on a coastal site.

The 19-kilometre, 20-station Line 1 returned to service end to end after a stage-by-stage closure for CRRC's System+ modernisation, which brought new trains, Siemens CBTC signalling and a rebuilt Observatorio station with 13 lifts. Railway Gazette puts the PPP concession behind the work at 32.2 billion pesos.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a frontier agentic coding model for long-running, project-scale work in Codex.

Motion Magic's donghua adaptation Wu Dong Qian Kun returns for a sixth season, continuing its wuxia-fantasy story of a disgraced young cultivator's rise through a world of martial dynasties.

Abbott agreed to buy Cologuard maker Exact Sciences for $105 a share in cash, a total equity value of about $21 billion, to enter cancer screening and precision oncology diagnostics.

Eli Lilly's market value crossed $1 trillion on 21 November 2025, making it the first drugmaker and first health-care company to join the club dominated by tech giants. Its shares hit a record $1,066.65 and closed at $1,059.70, driven by Zepbound and Mounjaro.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5, its new flagship model with state-of-the-art coding and agentic performance at lower pricing.

Abbott began a medical device correction for about 3 million FreeStyle Libre 3 and Libre 3 Plus sensors in the U.S. after internal testing found some give incorrect low glucose readings, an issue it linked to 736 severe adverse events and seven deaths worldwide. The FDA later made it a Class I recall.

Work started on the 456,100 sq m site of the former Yongsan train depot in central Seoul, to be built out as a cluster of skyscrapers including towers of more than 100 storeys on land held 7 to 3 by Korail and the Seoul Housing and Urban Development Corporation. Foundational roads, parks and parking are due by 2028, with the first move-ins from 2030.

The nearly 8-mile extension runs south from Angle Lake along I-5 and adds Kent Des Moines, Star Lake and Federal Way Downtown stations. Sound Transit moved the $2.5 billion project's opening up from an earlier target of March 2026.

Babcock & Wilcox received a limited notice to proceed on engineering and long-lead purchasing for a SolveBright CO2-capture system at an unnamed existing US power plant, sized to capture more than 550,000 tons a year. The full contract, expected by March 2026, is worth an estimated $80 million; the plant is not named, so the pin sits at B&W's Akron headquarters.

Alice Waters and Chez Panisse open a neighbourhood wine bar right beside the Berkeley restaurant, with chef Amelia Telč cooking a short, simple menu.

TI began production at SM1, the first 300mm wafer fab on its site off US-75 at Shepherd Road in Sherman, three and a half years after breaking ground. The site is laid out for up to four connected fabs and is meant to support as many as 3,000 direct jobs; TI is spending more than $60 billion across seven fabs in Texas and Utah.

Vietnam marked a ceremonial 'technical opening' of its US$4.6 billion first phase at Long Thanh International Airport near Ho Chi Minh City with the first landings, while most of Phase 1 was still under construction.

A sequel to Studio Pierrot's 2014 Yona of the Dawn TV anime was announced in the same Hana to Yume issue that carried the final chapter of Mizuho Kusanagi's 16-year fantasy manga.

The Kaiju No. 8 anime will adapt the manga's ending in a Final Chapter, announced with a teaser promo on the franchise's Jump Festa 2026 stage.

MAPPA's follow-up to the Reze Arc film was unveiled at Jump Festa '26, confirming that Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man would continue on screen with an adaptation of the manga's Assassins arc.

Bones Film's adaptation of Kei Urana's grimy fantasy Gachiakuta was renewed for a second season the moment its first season's finale finished airing.

The FDA approved Abbott's Volt pulsed field ablation system, a balloon-in-basket catheter that maps, paces and ablates, to treat paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation. The approval rested on the 392-patient VOLT-AF IDE study at 40 centers.

A Baltimore City jury awarded Cherie Craft $59.84 million in compensatory and $1.5 billion in punitive damages, finding J&J's talc baby powder exposed her to the asbestos behind her peritoneal mesothelioma - the largest talc verdict for a single plaintiff. J&J said it would appeal.

The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued an emergency special permit for segments 324 and 325 of the interstate Santa Ynez Pipeline System, approving Sable Offshore's enhanced integrity management practices and setting operational conditions. It is a step toward restarting the onshore transportation that has kept Sable's restarted Santa Ynez Unit oil in storage rather than on sale.

The Undead Unluck anime confirmed a second season the same night its Winter Arc special aired, with a new illustration from creator Yoshifumi Tozuka.

Cloud Art streams Sword of Coming 2nd Season, continuing the donghua about an ordinary boy who splits the sky with a single sword and becomes a legendary swordsman after felling a peerless rival.

Pure Arts' Beyond Time's Gaze begins release, a Chinese donghua following Xu Qing, the sole survivor of the ruined Nanhuang Continent, as a mysterious purple crystal starts him on a cultivation journey and into the Thunder Squad's ranks.

The integrated transport hub at the Beijing City Sub-centre, under Tongyun Subdistrict in Tongzhou District, took its first passengers on the Beijing-Tangshan and Beijing-Binhai intercity railways, with an interchange to Subway Line 6 at Beiyunhedong. Construction of the hub started on 30 November 2019.

A-1 Pictures' Kaguya-sama: Love is War -Stairway to Adulthood- premieres as a TV special, revisiting Kaguya Shinomiya's memories of her Shuchiin Academy student council days with Miyuki Shirogane.

A small Filipino tasting-menu restaurant on Nob Hill, with chef Patrick Gabon in an open kitchen and Celine Wuu running wine and the room.

Jamestown's $500 million overhaul of the long-vacant One Times Square, home of the New Year's Eve ball drop, wrapped up with a new glass facade, museum and observation deck.

There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless… ~Next Shine~ premieres on Japanese television, continuing studio MOTHER's light-novel adaptation about a reinvented high schooler juggling confessions from two of her school's most popular students.

A new theatrical anime film of Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina is announced, bringing Jougi Shiraishi's traveling witch Elaina back to the screen for the first time since C2C's 2020 TV series.

A second season of The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows, about an exiled slum-born healer who opens an underground clinic, was announced during the GA FES 2026 livestream.

Ikoku Nikki premieres, a Shuka-animated drama adapting Akane Torikai's manga about a reclusive novelist who unexpectedly becomes guardian to her orphaned teenage niece.

Boston Dynamics revealed the product version of its fully electric Atlas humanoid at Hyundai's CES media day and began building it at its Boston headquarters immediately. Every 2026 Atlas is already committed, with fleets going to Hyundai's Robotics Metaplant Application Center and to Google DeepMind.

Miami-Dade County and Royal Caribbean Group broke ground on a $345 million single-berth cruise terminal able to process about 7,000 passengers per ship call, with a multi-level garage and a ground-level intermodal hub, sized for Icon-class ships. Demolition of the terminal that stood on the site began in July 2025 and the new complex is slated for completion in late 2027.

Johnson & Johnson signed a voluntary most-favored-nation drug-pricing agreement with the Trump administration, selling medicines through TrumpRx.gov and to Medicaid at prices comparable to other developed countries in exchange for an exemption from pharmaceutical tariffs, and announced two new US plants in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

North Carolina Governor Josh Stein announced that Johnson & Johnson will build a second multibillion-dollar plant in Wilson, a drug product manufacturing facility for cancer and neurology medicines expected to create up to 500 jobs, beside the $2 billion biologics campus it is already building there.

Covering episodes 53 through 104 of the story, this installment continues Da Zhuzai (The Great Ruler), a Chinese cultivation-fantasy donghua from Motion Magic. It picks up leads Li Luo and Chen Mu on their climb through the setting's warring sects and hidden immortal factions after the ground laid in the first season.

The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority moved the Long Bridge Project into full construction, opening daytime work windows through the Washington, D.C. construction zone because the District's noise and vibration rules bar the work at night. A new two-track bridge beside the century-old Long Bridge will give a continuous four-track corridor between Arlington and L'Enfant Plaza, relieving the worst passenger-rail bottleneck on the East Coast.