Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Mayor Karen Bass signed a $14.85 billion balanced budget for fiscal 2026-27, $750 million more than the year before, keeping Inside Safe, funding 510 new police officers and more street and sidewalk repair.

Two Wilmar companies sign supply, brand-licence and staff-transfer agreements: from 1 July 2026 AWL sells Madhur sugar across India while Shree Renuka keeps making it and owns the brand, for a 1% royalty.

Daniel Patterson, best known for Coi in San Francisco, returns to fine dining with a 12-course tasting menu on Melrose Avenue, with his wife Sarah Lewitinn and pastry chef Matt Tinder.

Verizon completed its $1 billion cash purchase of cellular, AWS and PCS spectrum licenses from Array Digital Infrastructure, the former UScellular, covering about 8 percent of the US population.

A 200-ton steel truss was attached to a buttress on the east side of the ballpark on 1 June, the first piece of the arching roof that will top out about 290 feet over the field, roughly the height of the MGM Grand across Tropicana Avenue.

A 20-course, $295 tasting menu staged as theatre: 26 diners at a time move from a graffiti lounge to a projection-mapped communal room, past the open kitchen and into a chandeliered dining room, two or three seatings a night.

Wilmar will pool its Nigerian and Beninese plantations, edible-oil and food businesses with TGI Group's brands and distribution in a Singapore-held 50:50 venture targeting a US$12 billion market.

Denver Water finished raising Colorado's Gross Dam by 131 feet, topping out the concrete work that will nearly triple the reservoir's storage capacity.

Aldi presented unions with a plan to open all its Belgian stores on Sundays from 8:30 to 13:00, staffed by volunteers paid a premium or given extra leave; unions said the hours break the Sunday closing law.

A new 10-year deal between Las Vegas Grand Prix, Inc., Clark County and the LVCVA keeps the Saturday-night Strip race on the Formula 1 calendar through 2037.

PLDT signed a share purchase agreement with Meralco's Paragon Vertical for the 65.1% of fibre carrier Radius Telecoms it does not own, a PHP 2.935 billion deal that will make Radius a wholly owned unit once the competition and telecom regulators approve.

Mattel's He-Man franchise gets a live-action feature, with Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Adam and Jared Leto as Skeletor, directed by Travis Knight.

The quiet supersonic demonstrator reached Mach 1.1 and 43,400 feet on an 81-minute flight from Edwards Air Force Base, the first time it exceeded the speed of sound. A NASA F-15 chase plane flew alongside, its own booms drowning out anything the X-59 made.

The VA switched the Cincinnati, Chillicothe, Dayton and Fort Thomas medical centres to the Federal EHR, its second 2026 wave, serving more than 107,000 veterans.

A magnitude 7.8 quake off southern Mindanao cut power to PLDT and Smart sites around General Santos; by 10 June Smart had service back in 22 of 24 affected provinces, with Starlink links filling gaps.

Amtrak and its newly chosen builders showed the public a first look at the redesigned Penn Station concourse, the latest step in a federal takeover of the long-delayed rebuild.

Babcock & Wilcox is collaborating with TerraSpark on the TerraSpark Energy Campus near the Mount Storm power complex in Grant County, West Virginia, with an expected scope of four 400 MW supercritical boilers, full emissions controls and construction. The campus pairs a 1.6 GW coal plant with Mantel's carbon capture.

The council unanimously approved a budget closing a $118 million structural deficit, restoring some library and recreation-center hours and most arts funding while keeping the Flock license-plate reader contract.

PLDT shareholders elected 13 directors at the Grand Hyatt Manila, where Manny Pangilinan said the VITRO REIT IPO could raise $300-400 million from eight data centres.

Cosm opened a 70,000-square-foot, three-level venue built around an 87-foot 12K LED dome in Atlanta's Gulch, showing Game 4 of the NBA Finals on its first night. It is the first attraction finished inside Centennial Yards, the $5 billion, 50-acre redevelopment of the rail gulch between State Farm Arena and Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Rackspace is cutting about 15% of its global workforce, roughly 750 of some 5,000 employees, mostly in legacy public-cloud services, to redeploy money into enterprise AI.

As FIFA's official telecom sponsor, Verizon ran the connectivity for the 104-match tournament, adding 5G spectrum to lift capacity three to five times at every US host stadium; its network reportedly carried nearly 500 TB, 29.2 TB of it at the final.

The donghua Fanren Xiu Xian Zhuan Di Wu Ji (A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, fifth season) begins streaming, continuing Original Force and Wonder Cat Animation's adaptation of Wang Yu's xianxia novel.

Folarin Balogun scored twice as the co-hosts opened their 2026 World Cup with a 4-1 win over Paraguay before 70,492 in Inglewood.

The Grade II-listed west London exhibition halls reopened as a mixed-use district with rooftop restaurants, offices, two hotels and the 3,800-capacity British Airways ARC music venue, which launched the following night. The GBP 1.3 billion transformation, designed by Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC, opens the 14-acre site to the public for the first time in 140 years; the 1,575-seat British Airways Theatre follows in 2027.

HPE's four-day Americas conference at the Venetian Expo, where Antonio Neri's keynote pitched the network as the foundation of the agentic enterprise and HPE launched Juniper switches for AI factories, agent governance with NVIDIA and eight new quantum partnerships.

Verizon scrapped activation and upgrade fees, launched a Verizon Dollars and Verizon Shine loyalty program for every customer, and introduced the $45 Simplicity plan with unlimited 5G Ultra Wideband for all.

Robinhood cut about 10% of its full-time employees, roughly 290 people, to flatten management layers, booking about $28 million in charges.

DOE's Lux AI cluster, built by HPE with more than 4,000 AMD MI355X GPUs, was delivered to ORNL's leadership computing facility, starting installation of the first dedicated AI system for the Genesis Mission.

Pixar's fifth Toy Story film pits Woody, Buzz, and Jessie against Lilypad, a disruptive new tablet device competing for their kid Bonnie's attention.

The Obama Foundation's 19.3-acre campus in Jackson Park, built around a 225-foot museum tower, took its first visitors on Juneteenth, the day after a dedication ceremony at John Lewis Plaza. At roughly $850 million it is the most expensive presidential library yet built; ground was broken in September 2021 after years of lawsuits over the Jackson Park site.

PLDT's data centre arm VITRO filed its registration statement and REIT plan with the Philippine SEC for an IPO of up to PHP 24.2 billion, the country's first digital infrastructure REIT, backed by eight data centres of about 24 MW.

Yien Animation's Beyond Time's Gaze 2 begins release, the second season of the Chinese web-novel adaptation Guangyin Zhi Wai, continuing its cast's story as an ongoing original net animation.

Lucid is cutting about 18% of its U.S. workforce, roughly 1,500 people including factory workers, ending the second shift at its Arizona plant; COO Marc Winterhoff is out as the role is eliminated.