Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Verizon became the first US carrier to let customers text any other phone by satellite when out of cellular range, starting with Samsung Galaxy S25 and Google Pixel 9 phones.

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.

Verizon guaranteed new and existing myPlan and myHome customers that their base plan price would not change for three years, with the lock resetting on every plan change, until it quietly stopped offering it on mobile plans in June 2026.

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.

A-1 Pictures' hit romantic comedy about a bystander who keeps consoling the girls who lost the love race, Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, was renewed for a second season at a fan event in April 2025.

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.

The FCC approved Verizon's $20 billion Frontier purchase after Verizon committed to ending its DEI practices, with Chairman Brendan Carr citing fiber builds of 1 million or more homes a year and commitments to tower crews.

After six months and 73 hearings, a Senate commission said the French state hid Nestlé Waters' use of banned treatments on Perrier, Vittel, Contrex and Hépar, a fraud France's fraud-control agency puts at over 3 billion euros.

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.

OpenAI rolls back an o4-mini snapshot deployed less than a week earlier after its monitoring detected an increase in content flags.

Valley Metro opened the 5.5-mile South Central Extension and Downtown Hub, adding eight stations along Central and 1st avenues down to Baseline Road. The same day the system was restructured into an A Line running to Mesa and a B Line running from Metro Parkway in north-west Phoenix down to Baseline Road, the two meeting at four new downtown platforms.

OpenAI releases o3-pro to Pro users in ChatGPT and in its API, a version of o3 that thinks longer for the most reliable responses.

Cloud Art's donghua adaptation Zhu Xian continues into a third season, extending its wuxia-fantasy saga of rival sects, hidden loyalties, and the legendary Zhuxian Sword.

How to Train Your Dragon is a 2025 American fantasy adventure film and a live-action remake of the 2010 animated film by DreamWorks Animation, itself loosely based on the 2003 novel by Cressida Cowell. The film was written and directed by Dean DeBlois, who co-wrote and directed the animated film.

New York's MTA won final approval for a record $68.4 billion five-year capital plan aimed at modernizing the aging subway, from new train cars to next-generation train control.

China opened Chongqing East, a 1.22 million sq m high-speed rail hub roughly six times the size of New York's Grand Central, as the newest showpiece of its 50,000km high-speed rail network.

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A Lonely Dragon Wants to Be Loved opens in Japanese theaters, a Kyoto Animation film that draws Kanna back to the Dragon World and threatens the found family she built with Kobayashi and Tohru.

After years of safety-related construction halts and cost overruns, the new cable-stayed Harbor Bridge across Corpus Christi's ship channel finally opened to traffic in 2025.

Takopi's Original Sin follows a cheerful alien named Takopi who lands on Earth to bring happiness to a bullied, lonely fourth-grader, Shizuka, only to confront how much darker her life is than his gadgets can fix.

National Gas marked a £350M investment in hydrogen-ready compressor infrastructure shared across three sites, Peterborough among them, part of preparing Britain's gas transmission network for a lower-carbon future.

Port Waratah Coal Services took Shiploader 7.09 offline for a four-month overhaul at its Kooragang Coal Terminal, fitting a new seven-metre loading chute and trimmer flap. The refurbishment is part of a $270 million program to modernise the Newcastle coal export terminal.

Canada's first large-scale liquefied natural gas export terminal, built by a Shell-led joint venture in Kitimat, British Columbia, produced and shipped its first LNG cargo in 2025.