Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Novartis announced US$23 billion for U.S. infrastructure over five years, covering 10 facilities including seven new sites. The program includes manufacturing expansion and a US$1.1 billion San Diego research hub.

A New York Helicopters Bell 206L-4 tour flight from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport broke apart and fell into the Hudson River off Jersey City, killing the pilot and a family of five from Spain.

Ferrero Canada will spend C$445 million expanding its Brantford plant, adding 500 jobs and the first lines anywhere for new Ferrero Rocher chocolate squares, plus Nutella Biscuits made outside Europe for the first time.

Alo sued a Colorado shell company named "ALO YOGA ALO, LLC" and two men it says forged documents, posed as its CEO and tried to take over its trademarks in China and at WIPO to sell counterfeits.

Prosecutors named the three judges who cleared Wilmar, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau as bribery suspects, alleging Rp 60 billion was arranged through lawyers and a court clerk to buy the verdict.

Istanbul's 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia began restoring its dome to withstand a major earthquake, a phase of a 50-year plan to reinforce the building with no fixed finish date.

OpenAI releases GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-4.1 nano in its API with 1-million-token context, a June 2024 knowledge cutoff and OpenAI's first nano model, priced at $0.10 per 1 million input tokens.

On 15 April 2025 Caterpillar announced that COO Joe Creed would succeed Jim Umpleby as CEO and join the board on 1 May, with Umpleby becoming executive chairman.

Magnus Brickell is a 465-home mixed-income tower with 93 low-income affordable homes, 70 workforce homes and 302 market-rate apartments. Grand opening celebrated April 15, 2025. Published rents: 1 bedroom, workforce 140% AMI, prominent page price $2,495, 2 bedrooms, workforce 140% AMI, marked unavailable $3,186.

IBM releases Granite 3.3 8B and 2B Instruct with fill-in-the-middle support and refined reasoning, plus Granite Speech 3.3 8B, its first official speech-to-text model, under Apache 2.0.

Hershey's first new factory in its hometown in more than 30 years, a 250,000-square-foot plant that makes the chocolate for Reese's, Kit Kat, Symphony and Special Dark, opened with Governor Josh Shapiro. It is Hershey's first fully integrated digital plant and brings more than 125 jobs.

Google puts Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview, its first fully hybrid reasoning model, where developers can switch thinking off or cap it with a thinking budget of up to 24,576 tokens.

Ralph Lauren presented its Fall 2025 collection, "The Modern Romantics," at an off-calendar runway show inside the newly opened Jack Shainman Gallery in Tribeca, drawing a front row that included Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams and Anna Wintour.

Sharon Lokedi of Kenya won the women's race in 2:17:22, breaking the 2014 course record of 2:19:59, and John Korir won the men's race in 2:04:45 after falling in the opening meters. Marcel Hug took his eighth wheelchair title on the 250th anniversary of Patriots' Day.

Tesla's first-quarter 2025 revenue fell 9% to $19.3 billion and automotive revenue 20%, with adjusted EPS of $0.27 against $0.39 expected; Tesla held back on 2025 growth and said it would revisit guidance in its Q2 update.

Roche announced US$50 billion over five years for pharmaceutical and diagnostics manufacturing and R&D in the United States. The program includes new research sites and new or expanded manufacturing facilities.

Kering reports first-quarter 2025 group revenue of €3.9 billion, down 14%, as Gucci's sales fall 25% on a comparable basis to €1.6 billion amid low store traffic and a 33% wholesale decline.

President Marcos and PLDT chairman Manuel Pangilinan inaugurated VITRO Sta. Rosa, a 50-megawatt hyperscale data centre in Laguna with NVIDIA-powered GPU servers for AI workloads.

Nevada gaming regulators unanimously fined MGM Resorts $8.5 million for letting illegal bookmakers Wayne Nix and Mathew Bowyer gamble with illicit cash at MGM Grand and The Cosmopolitan, where the Grand alone took $4,079,830 of Nix's proceeds by 2020.