Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

At its 159th Annual General Meeting in Lausanne, Nestlé's shareholders re-elected Pablo Isla as Chair and elected former Swiss National Bank chairman Thomas Jordan and P&G executive Fama Francisco to the board. They also approved a CHF 3.10 dividend, the 30th consecutive increase.

DOE had asked for up to 30 million barrels of sweet crude from West Hackberry on 9 April 2026; eight days later it awarded contracts for 26 million of them, with deliveries starting at once. By then more than 10 million barrels of the wider exchange had already reached the market.

Santa Barbara County Judge Donna Geck refused to lift the injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting its Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, rejecting for the first time the company's claim that a federal Defense Production Act order overrides California law. She set a May 22 hearing on whether Sable, which resumed moving oil in March, should be held in contempt.

MARTA started service on the Rapid A-Line, a five-mile route with 14 new stations linking downtown Atlanta to Capitol Gateway, Summerhill, Peoplestown and the BeltLine's Southside Trail, much of it in dedicated bus lanes. Construction continues along the corridor, with temporary stops standing in at five stations until final revenue service in the autumn.

LACMA's permanent collection moved into a new home on 19 April 2026: a 275-metre curved building of glass and concrete that steps over Wilshire Boulevard on splayed piers, lifting 10,220 square metres of galleries some nine metres above the street. It completes a campus rebuild two decades in the making, replacing four of the museum's ageing buildings with a single level where the collection is shown without a fixed route through it.

The 2.25-mile automated people mover linking LAX's terminals to the Metro Rail system and the rental car centre began demonstration running without passengers, aiming for 30 consecutive days of error-free operation before it can carry anyone. Construction was originally due to finish in March 2023; Los Angeles World Airports has since agreed to more than $880 million in dispute payments on top of the $4.9 billion, 25-year contract, and has not announced an opening date.

TSMC's largest annual customer event opened its 2026 series at the Santa Clara Convention Center on 22 April, where it debuted the A13 process, previewed A12 and introduced N2U.

Frankfurt Airport's new Terminal 3 opened after more than a decade of construction, giving Germany's biggest airport its first major expansion since the troubled Berlin Brandenburg saga.

Nestlé grew 3.5% organically in the first quarter, led by coffee, even though its infant formula recall cut about 0.9 points off growth; reported sales fell 5.7% to CHF 21.3 billion on the strong franc. It kept its 2026 guidance.

Antoine Fuqua's musical biopic stars Michael Jackson's nephew Jaafar Jackson as the pop icon, tracing his life from childhood through his early solo career.

The Chicago Transit Authority started building the $5.7 billion, 5.5-mile extension of the Red Line south from 95th/Dan Ryan, with a ceremony at the site of the future Michigan Avenue station. Four new accessible stations near 103rd Street, 111th Street, Michigan Avenue and 130th Street will bring rapid transit to the Far South Side for the first time.

Taiwan's Intellectual Property and Commercial Court jailed Chen Li-ming for 10 years, three TSMC engineers for 2 to 6 years, and fined Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit NT$150 million - the first verdict under the National Security Act's core-technology clause.

Verizon posted its first positive first-quarter postpaid phone net additions since 2013, a record $13.4 billion of adjusted EBITDA, and raised its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance.

Figure said its BotQ plant had gone from building one Figure 03 a day to one an hour in under 120 days - a 24x ramp that delivered more than 350 of its third-generation humanoids, with end-of-line first-pass yield above 80% and over 9,000 actuators built.

1X started full-scale production of its NEO home humanoid at a 58,000 sq ft plant in Hayward, California, making its own motors, batteries, structures and sensors in-house - capacity for 10,000 NEOs a year, after the first year's run sold out in five days.

Chef Csilla Thackray opens a bright Austro-Hungarian restaurant on Butler Street, named for her great-grandfather and inspired by her Hungarian grandmother.

The final structural beam went in at the top of the 660-foot guitar-shaped hotel tower, built on the former site of the Mirage's volcano and holding 675 of the resort's rooms. The $4 billion Hard Rock Las Vegas is a full rebuild of the Mirage, which closed on 17 July 2024, and is expected to open in the fourth quarter of 2027.

The one-off special My Hero Academia More premieres, checking in on the grown former students of Class 1-A in Kohei Horikoshi’s superhero series after the main story’s end.

IKEA shut its only Tennessee store after nearly a decade, taking 114 jobs with it. The company called the closure part of a strategic shift, decided on a review of "market share, business performance, cost structure, and overall optimization of physical assets"; Mid-South customers keep online ordering and FedEx pickup.

Announced on stage at IBM's Think 2026 in Boston, the planned collaboration would pair IBM's AI, hybrid-cloud and consulting capabilities with Aramco's operations and data on agentic AI, automation and materials science, extending a partnership dating to 1947.

VCF 9.1 is Broadcom's private-cloud platform release for AI inference and agentic workloads, promising up to 40% lower server costs through memory tiering and mixed AMD, Intel and NVIDIA hardware; its release notes are dated 12 May.

Broadcom and VMware International asked the EU General Court to annul the Commission's 26 February 2026 information decision in case AT.40924, in so far as it compels documents held outside the EU and legal advice privileged under US and other non-EU law (Case T-280/26).

Sable Offshore posted a $197.0 million net loss for Q1 2026 after resuming oil sales from the Santa Ynez Unit under a U.S. Department of Energy Defense Production Act order, and ended the quarter with $956.3 million of short-term debt against $52.2 million in cash.

Six months after its 13,000-job cut, Verizon confirmed a new round of several hundred layoffs, under 1 percent of its workforce, falling hardest on its Basking Ridge, New Jersey campus.

The video-game sequel pits Warner Bros.' fighters against Shao Kahn, with Karl Urban joining the returning cast from the 2021 reboot.

Chef Theo Adley opens a Basque-leaning bistro in Denver's Five Points, sister to Marigold in Lyons, Colorado, with a rotisserie and a counter by a roll-up door.

Aramco's first-quarter adjusted net income jumped to $33.6 billion from $26.6 billion as it ran the East-West Pipeline at its full 7 million barrels a day to export from the Red Sea while the Strait of Hormuz was choked off. The board held the base dividend at $21.9 billion, 3.5% up on a year earlier.

After soliciting up to 92.5 million barrels from all four storage sites - the largest single exchange in the reserve's history - DOE awarded contracts for 53.3 million on 11 May 2026, at a return premium of about 28 per cent. That is 15.1 million extra barrels owed back to the stockpile.

First-quarter revenue rose 44% to $214.4 million and adjusted EBITDA rose 296% to $16.1 million, while $81.8 million of non-cash warrant and stock costs left a $79.6 million net loss. Backlog stood at $2.7 billion and the pipeline passed $14 billion.

Zaha Hadid Architects' single-mast Danjiang Bridge across the Tamsui River, now the world's longest single-mast cable-stayed bridge, is set to open to traffic in Taipei.

Johnny Curiel opens a small corn-centred Mexican tasting-menu restaurant in Denver, his sixth opening in three years; the menu runs to 18 courses.

The three biggest US carriers agreed in principle to form a joint venture pooling spectrum so satellite operators can reach phones directly and all but end wireless dead zones.

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.

B&W sold 12.4 million new shares at $18.50 each, raising about $230 million with the underwriters' extra shares, and Applied Digital bought about 540,500 of them. The money is meant to expand steam turbine and boiler production for AI data centre power plants.

An Assemblée nationale fact-finding mission found contaminated formula stayed on sale for weeks after the alert and that five weeks passed between Nestlé's first recall and France's health crisis centre hearing of it, and made 12 recommendations.

People on the top 12 mg dose of Lilly's triple-hormone shot retatrutide lost an average of 28.3% of their body weight (70.3 lbs) over 80 weeks, and 30.3% by two years in the extension - weight loss at the level of bariatric surgery.

Saudi Arabia's NEOM authority paused further construction on The Line, its 170km linear megacity, until after 2030 amid a sweeping scale-back of the project's ambitions.

Aramco signed an agreement to transfer its stakes in the PRefChem refinery and petrochemical complex at Pengerang, Johor to PETRONAS, which will own and run it outright. Aramco committed $7 billion to the 300,000 b/d project in 2017; the sale comes as the Strait of Hormuz closure cut Saudi crude flows to Asia.

Lilly moves into infectious disease by agreeing to buy Curevo (shingles), LimmaTech Biologics (staph and other bacteria) and Vaccine Company (Epstein-Barr virus) for up to $3.83 billion combined in cash.

MAPPA confirmed a third season of Dorohedoro at the end of Season 2's finale, keeping Caiman's grimy hunt through the Hole and the sorcerers' realm going.

Broadcom's BCM6772, BCM6774 and BCM6776 put the application processor, network processor, 2.4 and 5 GHz Wi-Fi 8 radios and a multi-gigabit Ethernet PHY on one die, for smaller, cheaper mesh nodes and multi-gig routers.

OpenAI updates GPT-5.5 Instant in ChatGPT and the API to be easier to read and better paced, with fewer long or bullet-heavy answers.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8, stronger across coding, agentic tasks and professional work, with the consistency to keep working on long-running tasks.