Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Qualcomm's board lifted the quarterly dividend from $0.89 to $0.92 a share and approved a new $20 billion stock repurchase authorization with no expiry date.

Qualcomm stockholders re-elected 11 directors, approved executive pay and a larger stock plan, and voted down proposals on calling special meetings and on China risk at the virtual 2026 annual meeting.

Chip Bergh, who ran Levi Strauss & Co. from 2011 to 2024, joins Lululemon's board and will stand at the 2026 annual meeting in place of lead director David Mussafer, who is retiring.

Fiscal 2025 revenue rose 5% to $11.1 billion but EPS fell to $13.26, and Lululemon guided 2026 EPS to just $12.10-$12.30 as tariffs, discount pull-backs and proxy-fight costs weighed.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano, its most capable small models yet: mini approaches GPT-5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro (54.4% against 57.7%) at more than 2x the speed of GPT-5 mini, and nano is API-only at $0.20 per 1 million input tokens.

Reenactors, cannon fire and a mounted Washington marked 250 years since the British left Boston, at a newly restored Dorchester Heights Monument rededicated by the National Park Service.

State Parks sued Sable and its Pacific Pipeline Co. for continuing trespass, saying the 30-year easement for the four miles of Line CA-325 under Gaviota State Park expired in 2016, and asked a court to stop the oil and order the pipe removed. A federal judge later refused to halt the flow.

Wilmar's Indian sugar arm makes Kamboj chief executive from 23 March and managing director from 1 April 2026, as executive chairman Atul Chaturvedi, a former Adani Wilmar CEO, becomes a non-executive director.

MiniMax releases M2.7, its first model to take part in its own evolution, scoring 56.22% on SWE-Pro and 57.0% on Terminal Bench 2 with native Agent Teams, at $0.30 per 1 million input tokens.

The FOMC held the federal funds target range at 3-1/2 to 3-3/4 percent on 18 March 2026 by an 11-1 vote, adding that developments in the Middle East made the outlook uncertain.

Geely Automobile Holdings reported on 18 March 2026 that 2025 revenue rose 25% to a record RMB 345.2 billion and core profit rose 36% to RMB 14.41 billion on 3.02 million vehicles, and set a 2026 target of 3.45 million units.

Ferrero signed to buy Bold Snacks, a Brazilian protein-bar and whey brand founded in 2018, with its office and factory in Divinópolis, Minas Gerais and about 300 staff - its first better-for-you business in South America.

From 18 March 2026 Harry Reid International Airport set daily heat records 12 days running, broke the all-time March high of 93°F five times and peaked at 98°F on 25 March, in a month that averaged 73°F, 12.2°F above normal, with no rain.

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.