Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The Jakarta anti-corruption court sentenced Muhammad Syafei, head of social security legal at Wilmar's Indonesian unit, to six years for helping channel about Rp 60 billion (US$4 million) in bribes to the judges who acquitted Wilmar.

Ferrero split its top job: Alessandro Nervegna will run the core confectionery, biscuits and better-for-you business, while CEO Lapo Civiletti moves to lead Ferrero Ice Cream and WK Kellogg Co from 1 September 2026.

Florida shopper Alix Widmia sued Nike in federal court in Portland on 4 March 2026 on behalf of everyone whose data was exposed in the breach Nike found on 21 January, accusing it of lax security and of waiting until 25 February to warn customers.

Broadcom's revenue rose 29% to a record $19.3 billion for the quarter ended 1 February 2026, with AI semiconductor revenue up 106% to $8.4 billion, and it guided the second quarter to $22.0 billion.

OpenAI brings GPT-5.4 Thinking to ChatGPT, a frontier model combining GPT-5.3-Codex's coding with better work across tools, documents and spreadsheets.

Boyd Gaming brought down the 16-story Eastside Cannery tower at 2 a.m., six years after the locals casino closed for the pandemic and never reopened; the site is being sold for housing.

Maggie Gyllenhaal writes and directs a dark, comedic reimagining of the Bride of Frankenstein, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale.

Salesforce said a known threat group was mass-scanning public Experience Cloud sites with a modified Mandiant tool and pulling CRM data through overly permissive guest user profiles.

For International Women's Day Alo runs 270 free Pilates, yoga, meditation and sound-bath classes with more than 100 women-owned studios in nine countries, as the Alo Foundation backs The Mental Health Coalition.

Aramco's board approved buying back up to 350 million of its shares, worth at most SAR 11.3 billion ($3 billion), within 18 months of 9 March 2026, to hold in treasury for its employee share plan. It is the company's first buyback; until now it returned cash only through dividends.

At CSW70 in New York on 9 March 2026, the Commission on the Status of Women adopted its Agreed Conclusions on access to justice for women and girls by recorded vote, 37 to 1 with 6 abstentions, after the United States broke the usual consensus.

Nike told a special works council at its European Logistics Campus in Laakdal, Belgium, on 10 March 2026 that it plans to cut 411 jobs, 330 of them weekend-shift posts handling online orders, citing falling online sales.

Oracle grew revenue 22% to $17.2 billion, its first quarter in over 15 years with organic revenue and adjusted EPS both up 20% or more, raised its fiscal 2027 revenue forecast to $90 billion, and the stock jumped 9% the next day.

Thirty-two IEA member nations agreed on 11 March 2026 to release 400 million barrels between them after Iranian attacks slowed tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. The American share was 172 million barrels, the largest US release ever ordered, and Secretary Wright said it would take about 120 days to deliver.

A 6.4-million-square-foot garage beside the 405, the second-largest concrete building in the US after the Pentagon, now holds all 12 on-airport rental car brands.

Broadcom's Tomahawk 6, the first 102.4 Tbps Ethernet switch chip and double the bandwidth of Tomahawk 5, moved into production-volume shipments less than three quarters after its first samples.

The first tranche of the 172-million-barrel release went out as a request for proposals on 13 March 2026, covering 86 million barrels from Bryan Mound, West Hackberry and Bayou Choctaw. Bids were due the following Tuesday, and the borrowers must hand the oil back with extra barrels on top.

Lululemon's first Polish store opened in Warsaw's Westfield Arkadia through franchise partner Arion Retail Group, its 100th store in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Sable Offshore resumed shipping crude from Las Flores Canyon to Pentland Station through the Santa Ynez Pipeline System on March 14, 2026, complying with a Defense Production Act order issued by Energy Secretary Chris Wright. The company expects first sales by April 1, 2026 at a gross oil rate of 50,000 Bbls/d, which it says would raise domestic crude supply into the California market by about 17%.

Boston's new NWSL club lost its first-ever match 1-0 to reigning champion Gotham FC, on a 55th-minute Esther González goal, before an announced 30,207, a league record for an expansion team's home opener. The club splits its first season between Gillette Stadium and Centreville Bank Stadium before moving to White Stadium.

A measles outbreak that began in mid-March 2026 has killed 909 people with suspected symptoms and confirmed nearly 20,000 cases, by the Directorate General of Health Services' count as of 10 September. It is still running.

OpenAI updates GPT-5.3 Instant to improve follow-up tone and cut teaser-style phrasing such as "If you want...".

Salesforce prepaid $25 billion to five banks and took delivery of about 103 million of its own shares, roughly 80% of the total, in what it called the largest accelerated share repurchase in history.

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.

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.

An adaptation of Andy Weir's novel starring Ryan Gosling as a lone astronaut who wakes with no memory, tasked with saving Earth from a species-ending threat to the sun.

Jack-of-All-Trades, Party of None, animation studio42's adaptation of the fantasy about an enchanter cast out of the hero party, announced a second season after its final episode aired.

Abbott closed its $105-a-share cash purchase of Cologuard maker Exact Sciences, which became a wholly owned Abbott subsidiary; Exact Sciences shares last traded on Nasdaq on 20 March.

The WNBA Board of Governors unanimously ratified the new collective bargaining agreement a day after the players, locking in a $7 million salary cap, $1.4 million max salaries and revenue sharing from the 2026 season to 2032.

Pierce Manufacturing brought Phase I of its redesigned High Flow custom chassis production line online at its Appleton, Wisconsin campus, cutting chassis lead times by more than three months. The line is part of a $150 million-plus modernization of Pierce's Wisconsin, Florida, and Tennessee plants.

Doga Kobo's adaptation of [Oshi no Ko] will end with a fourth and final season, revealed with a teaser video the moment the third season's one-hour finale aired.