Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 premieres, continuing the mystery series animated by TOHO animation STUDIO and OLM as court apothecary Maomao investigates a new wave of intrigue brought by a visiting merchant caravan.

OpenAI rolls out a beta of tasks, letting GPT-4o in ChatGPT carry out one-time reminders and recurring actions at a future time.

The fourth season of the Chinese donghua Fanren Xiu Xian Zhuan begins streaming, continuing Original Force and Wonder Cat Animation's adaptation of the cultivation web novel behind it.

SK8 the Infinity EXTRA PART is an original-video omnibus that reunites the SK8 the Infinity cast for four standalone slice-of-life stories following the main TV series and film.

Ne Zha 2 (Nezha Zhi Mo Tong Nao Hai) opens in Chinese theaters over the Lunar New Year, a Coco Cartoon-animated sequel following the young deities Ne Zha and Ao Bing as they seek to restore their dissolving bodies.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o in ChatGPT, moving its training data cutoff from November 2023 to June 2024 and improving its understanding of images.

The sixth season of the Chinese donghua Xingchen Bian continues online, following young hero Qin Yu as he pursues cultivation and revenge across a world of rival sects.

OpenAI releases o3-mini, a cost-efficient reasoning model for coding, math and science with three adjustable reasoning efforts.

Red Dog Culture House releases Tian Guan Ci Fu Duanpian, a series of short bonus episodes set within the Tian Guan Ci Fu (Heaven Official's Blessing) universe, adapted from Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel.

A Russian drone struck Chernobyl's €2BN New Safe Confinement shelter, tearing a hole in the roof and starting a fire that burned for weeks.

A second season of CloverWorks' Bocchi the Rock!, adapting Aki Hamaji's four-panel manga about a painfully shy guitarist, is announced at a Kessoku Band live event.

J.C.Staff's A Certain Scientific Railgun is getting a fourth season, with director Tatsuyuki Nagai and the main voice cast returning to Mikoto Misaka's Academy City five years after Railgun T.

DAMAC International broke ground on The Delmore, a Zaha Hadid Architects-designed condo tower replacing the collapsed Champlain Towers South, with far fewer, far pricier units than before.

OpenAI releases a research preview of GPT-4.5, its largest and best model for chat, scaling up unsupervised learning rather than reasoning.

Hong Kong opened Kai Tak Sports Park, a 50,000-seat stadium and leisure complex built on the runway of the old Kai Tak Airport, closed since 1998.

On March 5, 2025, a New York Air National Guard LC-130H Skibird touched down on freshwater ice at Parsons Lake, Canada, a first for the unit’s ski-equipped Hercules fleet.

Eric Pham opens his first sit-down restaurant in St. Anthony Park, a tribute to his mother Khue Pham of Minneapolis's Quang, with most mains at $21 or less.

The second Mononoke film, Chapter II: The Ashes of Rage, opens in Japanese theaters, continuing the Medicine Seller's story as he is drawn into a spirit-haunted Edo-era harem consumed by rivalry and hidden rage.

Studio Drive releases the KONOSUBA 3 -Bonus Stage- OVA, two extra episodes bundled with the third season sending Kazuma's party on an explosion-fueled fight against an oncoming typhoon and a comic case of mistaken identity.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o to feel more intuitive and collaborative, with cleaner frontend code, better instruction following and clearer communication.

Production I.G's Kaiju No. 8 compilation film opens in Japan, recutting the first season around a new sequence in which intelligent kaiju attack a Defense Force base.

Felipe Oliveira and Hiro Tagai, of ramen bar Koyoté, open an itameshi restaurant - Japanese-Italian cooking - in Salt Lake City.

Michael and Courtney Zentner open a 24-seat bistro in a former corner grocery in Charleston, applying French technique to Lowcountry ingredients.

Koupen-chan begins broadcast, a one-minute-per-episode slice-of-life anime starring the plush, dumpling-shaped baby emperor penguin character of the same name.

Umamusume: Cinderella Gray begins broadcast, a CygamesPictures prequel to the Uma Musume: Pretty Derby franchise following the anthropomorphized racehorse Oguri Cap as she rises from a rural countryside stable to national stardom.

Transport for London opened the Silvertown Tunnel, a new road crossing under the Thames built to relieve the perennially congested Blackwall Tunnel a few hundred metres away.

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 o3, its most powerful reasoning model, and o4-mini, a smaller model optimized for fast, cost-efficient reasoning.

A bonus Natsume's Book of Friends Season 7 episode, bundled with the season's fifth Blu-ray volume, adds a standalone story to spirit-sighted teenager Takashi Natsume's ongoing run-ins with the yokai around him.

The Brooklyn Tower at 9 DeKalb Avenue, the borough's first supertall skyscraper, received its certificate of occupancy, issued as an extension of its temporary permit, years after residents began moving in.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o to optimize when it saves memories, improve STEM problem solving and make its responses more proactive.

OpenAI reverts the latest GPT-4o update in ChatGPT because it made responses overly agreeable.

Shenman Entertainment releases Shen Yin Wangzuo Movie: Yi Lai Ke Si Chuanqi, a spinoff film in the Throne of Seal donghua franchise retelling the legend of the Holy Necromancer God Yi Lai Ke Si and his war against the undead.

Chef Isao Yamada opens a minimalist kaiseki counter on Elizabeth Street, serving the seasonal Japanese multi-course form without spectacle.

King Charles III officially opened the Thames Tideway Tunnel, a 25km deep sewer built to stop billions of litres of sewage overflowing into the Thames each year.

OpenAI improves GPT-4o's system instructions so ChatGPT calls its image generation tool when users want an image.

OpenAI brings GPT-4.1, a coding-focused model first released in the API in April, to ChatGPT for Plus, Pro and Team users.

OpenAI replaces GPT-4o mini with GPT-4.1 mini in ChatGPT, improving instruction following, coding and overall intelligence for its small model.

LTA Research's Pathfinder 1, the largest aircraft in the world, flew beyond its Moffett Field base in California and over San Francisco Bay for the first time on 15 May 2025 - the first rigid airship of its size to fly since the 1930s. Its larger successor, Pathfinder 3, is being built in the century-old Goodyear Akron Airdock.

Ling Long 2, a Chinese ONA continuing the original series, begins release, following former Wilderness Hunter Commander Marc as he confronts a lighthouse-destroying apocalypse guided by the mysterious Bai Yuekui.

Maria Smith leaves a corporate career to open a family-run Filipino restaurant in Rogers, Arkansas, with her brother Bill Martfeld cooking from their mother's recipes.

A groundbreaking on Dyer Avenue between 37th and 39th Streets began the temporary terminal that keeps 8,000 buses a day running while the 1950 building is replaced. The $10 billion scheme was planned to finish in 2032, with new ramps by 2028.

Lost in Starlight premieres on Netflix, a South Korean animated science-fiction romance following astronaut hopeful Nan-young and musician Jay as a chance meeting draws them together across very different dreams.

MAPPA recuts the "Hidden Inventory/Premature Death" arc from Jujutsu Kaisen's second season into a standalone theatrical film, adding new footage of Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto's school days before their friendship curdled into rivalry. The arc follows the two strongest sorcerers as they're assigned to protect Riko Amanai, the Star Plasma Vessel, from a cult intent on completing her sacrifice - the mission that ultimately sets both men on their opposing paths.

ADOT wrapped up its largest urban freeway reconstruction, widening 11 miles of Interstate 10 from just south of Ray Road to Interstate 17 near Sky Harbor with extra travel and HOV lanes, collector-distributor roads, a rebuilt SR 143 interchange and new bridges at 48th Street and Broadway Road. Construction had run since summer 2021 and cost more than $800 million.

Chef Bill Briand opens a coastal Southern restaurant in a two-storey house in Fairhope, near Mobile, cooking Cajun-leaning dishes such as a dark-roux gumbo.

India inaugurated the Chenab Bridge, a steel arch railway bridge standing 359 metres above the Chenab River in the Himalayan foothills of Jammu and Kashmir.