Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Zak Pelaccio, of Manhattan's Fatty Crab, opens a Southeast Asian restaurant in a former Santa Fe furniture workshop, with 24-year-old Stella Achenbach running the kitchen.

Hines finished the 51-storey, 677-foot tower built on air rights over South Station, adding 680,000 square feet of offices, Ritz-Carlton branded residences on the upper floors and an expanded bus terminal beneath it. Construction ran five years from a start in January 2020, after the scheme had sat stalled since its 2008 approval.

Zaha Hadid Architects' 60,000-seat Xi'an International Football Center hosted its first official match, years after construction began in a city better known for ancient dynasties than football.

Cambodia's $1.2BN Techo International Airport, its jungle-inspired canopy roof designed by Foster + Partners, opened south of Phnom Penh as the government bets aviation can reshape the country's fortunes.

Babcock & Wilcox and Denham Capital's Sustainable Infrastructure arm will jointly convert existing coal-fired plants, largely to natural gas, to power data centres in the US and Europe. B&W supplies the engineering and technology; Denham leads development and financing. No plant is named yet, so the pin sits at B&W's Akron headquarters.

OpenAI adds GPT-5-Codex, a GPT-5 variant optimized for agentic coding, across Codex.

MAPPA's Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc opens in Japanese theaters, adapting the manga's Reze arc as Denji, now working as a Special Division 4 devil hunter, meets a mysterious café worker with a hidden connection to a Bomb Devil.

ROCK'N ROLL MOUNTAIN's 100 METERS releases in Japanese theaters, a sports drama following sprinter Togashi and his determined rival Komiya as their childhood rivalry on the track carries into adulthood.

OpenAI makes GPT-5-Codex available to developers in the Responses API, beyond the Codex surfaces.

Production company Infinite confirmed a second season of Re:Monster, the isekai tale of a man reborn as a goblin who eats his way up the monster ladder.

The Summer Hikaru Died used its first-season finale to confirm that a second season of the eerie rural horror series is in production.

Eight Bit's Blue Lock soccer anime was renewed for a third season adapting the Neo Egoist League arc, announced at the Blue Lock Egoist Fest 2025 alongside a live-action film.

Construction began on the Senna Tower, a supertall residential skyscraper in Balneário Camboriú, Brazil designed to become the tallest residential building on Earth.

Molly Mitchell turns her East Side diner into a dinner restaurant with a Polish-leaning menu of pierogi, kluski and kielbasa, keeping its sourdough burger.

Work began on a 190,000-square-foot addition that joins the South and West exhibit halls into one contiguous hall of more than 750,000 square feet, plus new meeting and multipurpose space. Construction pauses in 2028 so the centre can host Olympic fencing, taekwondo, wrestling and table tennis, with final completion in 2029.

Federal funding lapsed just after midnight on 1 October 2025 and stayed lapsed for 43 days, the longest shutdown ever, over a fight about expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies.

After two decades of false starts, Ireland's first metro line - linking Dublin city centre to the airport and Swords - was granted planning permission, with enabling works targeted to begin in 2027.

A chibi-style comedy spin-off inside the BanG Dream! multimedia franchise, bringing together characters from across its many in-universe bands for lighter, reunion-style skits rather than the mainline story's band drama. Animated by AtoriE, it leans on the franchise’s built-in cast recognition for quick comedic bits.

OpenAI updates GPT-5 Instant to better recognize and support people showing signs of mental and emotional distress.

My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON premieres, the concluding chapter of Bones' adaptation of Kohei Horikoshi's manga, bringing Izuku Midoriya and Japan's heroes into their climactic battle against Tomura Shigaraki and the villain alliance.

The newest mainline entry in the Digimon franchise, Beatbreak imagines a world running on e-Pulse — human thoughts and emotions harvested to power AI devices called Sapotama. When Digimon start materializing out of these devices and feeding on the e-Pulse that powers them, protagonist Tomoro Tenma joins Glowing Dawn, a task force investigating the rogue creatures and the system's darker workings. Animated by Toei Animation, it positions itself as a narrative descendant of the original 1999 Digimon Adventure while building its own emotion-driven premise.

Studio Pierrot's sixth season of Kingdom begins airing, continuing Xin's rise through the ranks of the Qin military during China's Warring States period.

The last 10.99 km stretch, from Acharya Atre Chowk to Cuffe Parade, opened to passengers and completed the 33.5 km Aqua Line, Mumbai's first fully underground metro with 27 stations. The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation's managing director put the line's completion cost at about 30,000 crore rupees.

FOUR Frankfurt's 233-metre Tower 1, the centrepiece of a four-tower mixed-use complex, received its occupancy certificate, capping a project that helped cement Frankfurt as continental Europe's densest skyscraper cluster.

Johnson & Johnson said it would separate its roughly $9.2 billion-a-year orthopaedics business into a standalone company called DePuy Synthes within 18 to 24 months, and named former Smith & Nephew chief Namal Nawana to run it.

Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Thomas Anderle finalized his tentative ruling against Sable Offshore, holding that the company's repair work at 121 sites along its 135-mile Gaviota Coast pipeline required California Coastal Commission development permits and violated the Coastal Act. The ruling leaves intact the injunction halting further repairs and keeps the Commission's $18 million fine a live issue.

Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 releases in Japanese theaters, an eight-part anthology film adapting short stories the Chainsaw Man creator wrote between the ages of 17 and 26, produced across six different animation studios.

JPMorgan Chase held a ribbon-cutting for its new Norman Foster-designed global headquarters, a supertall replacement for the demolished Union Carbide Building.

The district that runs the Golden Gate Bridge signed off on roughly $1 billion in funding for the final stage of a decades-long project to keep the span standing through a major earthquake.

MAPPA's Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise opens in Japanese theaters, sending the zombie idol group Franchouchou into a battle to save Saga prefecture from an alien invasion.

DART began passenger service on the 26-mile Silver Line, a 10-station regional rail route running east-west from Plano through Richardson, Addison, Carrollton and Coppell to DFW International Airport. It is the agency's first rail link from the northern suburbs straight into the airport, and rides were free for the first two weeks.

Miami-Dade's first bus rapid transit service runs 20 miles along US-1 from Dadeland South to Florida City on a rebuilt dedicated busway protected by gate arms and prioritised at rush hour, calling at 14 new BRT stations with air-conditioned waiting areas. The county calls it the longest all-electric BRT service in the nation, paid for with $100 million each from its half-penny transportation surtax, the Florida Department of Transportation and the Federal Transit Administration.

NASA is moving forward with their plans to create a quieter supersonic jet that can cut travel times in half. The quiet plane will fly up to 55,000 feet at supersonic speeds. The new prototype will run on two engines and in theory, it could cut the flight time from New York to Los Angeles in half from 6 to 3 hours.

At GTC Washington, Huang said Nvidia had shipped 6 million Blackwell GPUs over the previous four quarters, the baseline the later chip-sales projections build on.

Margarito and Hayden Pérez move their suadero taco truck into a brick-and-mortar taquería on North Lamar.

B&W sold its Allen-Sherman-Hoff ash-handling business to a subsidiary of Austria's Andritz for $29 million, a step to finish paying down its debt and focus on power generation, including plants for AI data centres. B&W keeps selling A-S-H and Diamond Power products to utilities as Andritz's sales representative.

Two decades and a billion dollars in the making, the largest archaeological museum in the world, holding the complete Tutankhamun collection.

Babcock & Wilcox signed a limited notice to proceed on a project valued at over $1.5 billion to design and install four 300 MW gas-fired boiler and steam turbine plants for an Applied Digital AI Factory, its entry into AI data-centre power.

OpenAI adds GPT-5-Codex-Mini, a smaller, cheaper GPT-5-Codex with about 4x more usage, to the Codex CLI and IDE extension.

B&W sold $67.5 million of new shares through its at-the-market program in two days, about $50 million of it to a single institutional investor, then paused the sales. The money backs its move into power for AI factories and data centres.

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.