Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Salesforce closed its purchase of Qualified, maker of the Piper AI SDR agent, for consideration it valued at $1.2 billion, mostly cash.

Ferrero North America's first portfolio-wide campaign, its biggest marketing commitment ever, offers a $1 million prize to shoppers across the World Cup summer, fronted by Tom Brady.

Jon Sybert and Jill Tyler replace Tail Up Goat with a counter-service New American restaurant in the same space.

8-bit begins broadcasting That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4, continuing Rimuru Tempest's story as his push for a human-monster alliance draws resistance from rival demon lords.

Shenman Entertainment streams Cang Yuan Tu 3, continuing the Chinese action-fantasy ONA's story of swordsman Meng Chuan directly from where its second season left off.

The fourth season of Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun begins broadcast, continuing Bandai Namco Pictures’ adaptation of Osamu Nishi’s manga about a timid human boy secretly enrolled at a school for demons.

Sunrise brings Rumiko Takahashi's Taisho-era yokai mystery MAO to NHK as a two-cour TV anime.

Nippon Sangoku begins streaming, a science-fiction drama set after Japan collapses into three warring successor states, following former agricultural officer Aoteru Misumi as he rises to reunify the country.

A third season of How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord, subtitled ULT, was announced for the ecchi isekai comedy about a socially awkward gamer summoned into his MMO world as its overpowered demon-lord avatar.

Oracle named Schneider Electric finance chief Hilary Maxson its chief financial officer to fund and run the capital-hungry AI cloud build-out, taking over from principal financial officer Doug Kehring.

The Korea Football Association's national training campus, designed by UNStudio around a 'total football' philosophy, officially opened.

Vuori named actor Tom Holland a global ambassador and creative, strategic and financial partner, launching with "Play It As It Lies", a golf short film co-directed by his brother Harry in Comporta, Portugal.

Studio PuYUKAI's Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Kyuukei Jikan (Break Time) 4th Season begins streaming, the latest run of chibi-style comedy shorts spun off from the Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- franchise.

Drop 1 opened global sales for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, after a locals-only presale put hundreds of thousands of $28 tickets in LA and Oklahoma City residents' hands; fans bought more than 4 million tickets that month.

A three-judge Second Circuit panel heard Sean Combs's appeal arguing that his 50-month sentence improperly relied on conduct the jury acquitted him of, and reserved decision after a two-hour argument.

DC Water lowered the tunnel boring machine Mary into a 100-foot-deep shaft in West Potomac Park and started her north towards Georgetown University, the first 2.4 miles of a 5.5-mile combined sewer overflow tunnel. The $819 million tunnel is part of the Clean Rivers Project and will cut Potomac overflow events from 74 a year to four; a second Herrenknecht machine, Emily, bores south towards Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling.

Nike lead director Tim Cook bought another 25,000 Nike shares at about $42.43 on 10 April 2026, and CEO Elliott Hill and directors Robert Swan and John Rogers Jr. also bought that week, after the third-quarter outlook sent the stock sharply lower.

After a three-year pause, the VA switched its Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Detroit and Saginaw medical centres to the Oracle Health-built Federal EHR on one day, the first of 13 deployments planned for 2026.

Aramco's new subsidiary to run the 47,000-seat Aramco Stadium in Al Khobar launched with Fahad Al Dhubaib as chairman and Matthew Kittle as chief executive, months before the venue is due to open for the 2027 AFC Asian Cup.

European Commission officials made unannounced antitrust inspections at a chocolate maker's premises in two EU countries over possible restrictions on cross-border trade, and Ferrero confirmed it was the company.

Vuori hired Rothy's former chief product and merchandising officer Heather Archibald into a new chief product officer role over design, development, merchandising, sourcing and production.

A multi-year deal through 2029 for Broadcom to co-develop and supply Meta's MTIA accelerators and Ethernet networking, starting with more than 1 GW and the industry's first 2nm AI compute accelerator; Hock Tan leaves Meta's board to advise it.

Salesforce's developer conference filled Moscone West for two days of 400+ technical sessions, where it unveiled Headless 360, exposing its platform to coding agents as APIs, MCP tools and CLI commands.

Nutella's first new flavour since 1964 blends its cocoa spread with roasted peanuts and goes on sale at major US retailers nationwide.

The Chinese ONA Nitian Xie Shen: Nian Fan begins release, continuing the Nitian Xie Shen action-fantasy story into its next arc.

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.

WWE's flagship event returned to Las Vegas for a second straight year, drawing 97,126 fans over two nights; Cody Rhodes kept the Undisputed WWE Championship and Roman Reigns took the World Heavyweight title from CM Punk.

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.

On appeal, the Jakarta High Court raised the sentence of Wilmar's former legal head Muhammad Syafei from six to eight years and his fine to Rp 500 million for helping bribe the judges who acquitted Wilmar.

Kaia Gerber fronts "For Kaia", Vuori's Spring 2026 campaign of new-season styles picked for her - AllTheForm, Sedona and Sunday track pieces - shot by Anthony Seklaoui, at $48 to $128.

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.

Facing a $307 million shortfall, the SFMTA board unanimously passed a balanced two-year budget ($1.5 billion in FY2026-27, $1.6 billion in FY2027-28) that keeps Muni service whole for a year using a $200 million state loan, higher cable car fares and the end of the Clipper discount.

Ferrara Candy Company, maker of Nerds and Trolli, will build a 750,000 sq ft plant in Orangeburg County, its first in South Carolina, investing $675 million and creating 1,000 jobs over 10 years.

Heidi O'Neill, who spent 27 years at Nike and last ran its consumer, product and brand, will become Lululemon's CEO on 8 September 2026 on a US$1.4 million base salary.

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.