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.

Aldi reached 500 stores in Spain with a 1,200 m2 supermarket in Mijas (Málaga), 24 years after entering the country - also the 5,555th store of the whole Aldi Nord group.

Fourth-quarter revenue was $161.0 million and adjusted EBITDA $16.4 million, and full-year 2025 adjusted EBITDA rose 107% to $43.7 million. Backlog reached $2.8 billion with the $2.4 billion Base Electron AI data-centre power project announced the same morning.

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.

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.

Aramco's 2025 net profit fell 12% to SAR 348 billion on lower oil prices, yet it raised its quarterly base dividend 3.5% to $21.89 billion and announced its first-ever share buyback, of up to $3 billion. No performance-linked dividend was declared for 2025.

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.

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...".

At GTC 2026, Huang said he expects purchase orders for Blackwell and Vera Rubin to reach $1 trillion through 2027, up from the $500 billion outlook given the previous year.

Wilmar's Indian sugar arm makes Kamboj chief executive from 23 March and managing director from 1 April 2026, as executive chairman Atul Chaturvedi, a former Adani Wilmar CEO, becomes a non-executive director.

Reenactors, cannon fire and a mounted Washington marked 250 years since the British left Boston, at a newly restored Dorchester Heights Monument rededicated by the National Park Service.

OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.4 mini in ChatGPT for Free and Go users through the Thinking feature, and as a rate-limit fallback for GPT-5.4 Thinking.

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.

Shiga toxin-producing E. coli was found in All Seasons 8 Kräuter frozen herbs delivered to every Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd region in Germany, the same product recalled for Salmonella in December.

Boyd's first new property in 20 years opened at noon on Boulder Highway with more than 450 slot machines and fully automated table games, taking over the staff and customers of the Jokers Wild next door.

MAPPA confirmed a fourth season of Jujutsu Kaisen, subtitled The Culling Game Part 2, off the back of the third season's finale, continuing Gege Akutami's sorcerer death-game arc.

A second season of the Iseleve anime, based on Miku's light novel about a bullied teen who levels up in another world and brings his new powers home, was announced on the AnimeJapan 2026 stage.

The ground reopened with Mexico against Portugal after closing in May 2024 for a rebuild covering modern screens, new lighting and redeveloped press areas and entrances, leaving a capacity of about 90,000. It will host five 2026 World Cup matches, making it the only stadium to stage three tournaments.

AP-HP started construction on the former Stellantis plant site in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine after two years of demolition and decontamination, with the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis signing the hospital's building permit on 24 September 2025. The campus will bring together a new hospital taking the medical and surgical work of the Bichat and Beaujon hospitals, a Universite Paris Cite health faculty and student housing, complete by 2032.

The Shanghai company said it had built its 10,000th humanoid, having taken nearly two years over the first thousand and just three months over the last five thousand - a fourfold acceleration it presents as the industry crossing from pilots into large-scale commercial deployment.

After Brad Reese, grandson of the cup's inventor, accused Hershey of swapping milk chocolate for cheaper compound coatings, CEO Kirk Tanner said the company will return to classic milk and dark chocolate recipes by 2027.

At an investor day at the New York Stock Exchange led by CEO Kirk Tanner, Hershey set out its ONE Hershey plan across sweet, salty and protein snacks. It targeted 2-4% organic sales growth, 15-20% adjusted EPS growth in 2027 and 6-8% from 2028.

Dorohedoro's second season streams on Netflix, with MAPPA continuing the story of the amnesiac, lizard-headed Caiman as he closes in on the sorcerer responsible for his cursed appearance.

The FDA approved Eli Lilly's Foundayo, a once-daily GLP-1 pill for weight loss that needs no food or water restrictions, with direct-to-consumer sales from April 6.