Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Li Auto launched the second-generation L9 flagship extended-range SUV on 15 May 2026 in Ultra and Livis trims from RMB 459,800, with a 72.7 kWh 5C battery, 420 km CLTC electric range and a 29-inch 6K screen.

On 15 May 2026 Chile's Second Environmental Court annulled the 2021 environmental approval of Collahuasi's C20+ expansion, ordering a new review of marine and human-environment impacts, just as the 1,050 litre a second Puerto Patache seawater desalination plant built by Acciona was due to start in 2026.

Dara won the 70th Eurovision Song Contest at the Wiener Stadthalle with 516 points, taking both the jury vote and the televote and giving Bulgaria its first win, in a contest boycotted by five countries.

3 Floyds Brewing's 30th-anniversary Dark Lord Day in Munster, Indiana, the only place to get bottles of its Dark Lord imperial stout, paired the 2026 release and six barrel-aged variants with a metal bill headlined by Napalm Death.

Egypt has inaugurated the $15BN New Delta project, moving recycled water across the desert to reclaim up to 2.2 million feddans of new farmland west of the Nile Delta.

Shania Twain hosted the 61st Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on 17 May 2026, where Ella Langley won all seven of her nominations, a record for one artist in a year, and Cody Johnson won his first Entertainer of the Year.

On 18 May 2026 NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy agreed to combine in an all-stock deal valued at US$66.8 billion, which would create the world's largest regulated electric utility with about 10 million customer accounts and 110 GW of generation.

Cursor releases Composer 2.5, a successor to Composer 2 scoring 69.3 on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and 79.8 on SWE-Bench Multilingual, with Fast pricing raised to $3/$15 per million tokens.

Microsoft describes a planned new Tyrone data center and a May 19, 2026 community session. This is a project disclosure date, not a groundbreaking or opening.

Google launches the Antigravity CLI, a lightweight terminal interface to Antigravity agents that shares its harness with Antigravity 2.0 and replaces Gemini CLI for consumers.

Google identifies two Kansas City data centers in development; the May 20, 2026 state update also describes its planned Kansas City facilities. This pin represents the city-level development, with individual parcels and opening dates unverified.

Google announced a new Montgomery County data center on May 20, 2026. The state identifies New Florence and describes the facility as planned; a confirmed operational date is unavailable.