Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

With the gang's leak deadline three days away, Salesforce emailed customers that it would not engage, negotiate with or pay any extortion demand.

Qualcomm agreed to acquire Arduino, the open-source electronics maker with more than 33 million active users, which keeps its brand and unveiled the UNO Q, its first 'dual-brain' board, on a Qualcomm Dragonwing chip.

The Los Angeles Fire Department published its 70-page After-Action Review of the first 36 hours of the Palisades Fire, citing too few resources on the initial attack, communication lapses and water shortages.

AST SpaceMobile signed a definitive commercial agreement to connect Verizon customers' ordinary phones to its BlueBird satellites across the continental US from 2026, using Verizon's 850 MHz spectrum.

Vuori opened its first Beijing store on 9 October 2025 in the South Zone of Taikoo Li Sanlitun, its entry into northern China after its Shanghai debut.

Alo Yoga is to take 2,120 m² at 92 avenue des Champs-Élysées, the former Zara flagship, for its first store in France.

Jordan Brand's pinnacle store concept reached the US at 1617 Walnut Street, a restored early-1900s Beaux Arts building in Center City, its sixth World of Flight worldwide.

When the ransom deadline passed, Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters published stolen Salesforce data of six companies, including 5 million Qantas customer records and 7.3 million Vietnam Airlines email addresses.

Oracle's renamed flagship conference (formerly CloudWorld), the first under co-CEOs Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia, where Oracle unveiled OCI Zettascale10, a 50,000-GPU AMD supercluster and Oracle AI Database 26ai.

Agentforce 360 joined Salesforce's agent platform, Data 360, its Customer 360 apps and Slack into one system for people and AI agents, launched with 12,000 customers and Agentforce Voice.

Oracle will be the first hyperscaler to offer a public AI supercluster of AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs, starting with 50,000 GPUs in AMD Helios racks in the third quarter of 2026 and expanding in 2027.

Salesforce and OpenAI expanded their partnership so companies can use Agentforce 360 apps and Tableau inside ChatGPT, pick OpenAI models such as GPT-5 in Agentforce, and sell through Instant Checkout.

Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Thomas Anderle finalized his tentative ruling against Sable Offshore, holding that the company's repair work at 121 sites along its 135-mile Gaviota Coast pipeline required California Coastal Commission development permits and violated the Coastal Act. The ruling leaves intact the injunction halting further repairs and keeps the Commission's $18 million fine a live issue.

Novelists Molly Tanzer and Jennifer Gilmore filed a proposed class action saying Salesforce trained its xGen language models on the Books3 trove of pirated books.

In Philipp Navratil's first results as CEO, Nestlé's third-quarter organic growth rose to 4.3% with volumes (RIG) back up 1.5%, and it raised its cost-savings target to CHF 3.0 billion by 2027, including about 16,000 job cuts over two years. The shares closed 9.3% higher.

In the Oval Office, the White House announces a deal under which EMD Serono sells its IVF drugs Gonal-f, Ovidrel and Cetrotide at steep discounts through TrumpRx, plus a new standalone fertility benefit employers can offer.

Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 releases in Japanese theaters, an eight-part anthology film adapting short stories the Chainsaw Man creator wrote between the ages of 17 and 26, produced across six different animation studios.

After Dreamforce closed, Marc Benioff posted that he no longer believed the National Guard was needed in San Francisco and apologized for the concern his remarks caused.

With President Prabowo Subianto watching in front of about Rp 2 trillion in stacked banknotes, the Attorney General handed Rp 13.255 trillion recovered from Wilmar, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau to the finance minister.

Both houses of Japan's National Diet named LDP leader Sanae Takaichi prime minister on 21 October 2025, with 237 votes in the lower house and 125 in the upper house, making her the first woman to lead Japan.

Blackpink's Jisoo designed a special-edition pink suede Alo Sunset Sneaker with Shumon star charms and a hidden 103 label for her birthday, sold for $275 worldwide.

Vantage will spend $15 billion-plus on Lighthouse, four data centers with close to a gigawatt of AI capacity in Port Washington outside Milwaukee, as the Midwest site of Oracle's 4.5 GW Stargate deal with OpenAI.

Citigroup's board elected chief executive Jane Fraser as chair, ending the split of the two roles, with former chair John Dugan becoming lead independent director and Fraser receiving a one-time $25 million stock award.

Ferrero Canada started the world's first production line for Ferrero Rocher chocolate squares at its Brantford, Ontario plant, part of its C$445 million expansion there.

Nike showed Project Amplify, a motorised ankle cuff and carbon-plated shoe built with robotics firm Dephy that it calls the world's first powered footwear system, meant to help everyday runners at 10-12 minute miles go farther with less effort.

The district that runs the Golden Gate Bridge signed off on roughly $1 billion in funding for the final stage of a decades-long project to keep the span standing through a major earthquake.

The FDA approves Bayer's Lynkuet (elinzanetant), the first drug to block both the NK1 and NK3 receptors, as a hormone-free treatment for moderate to severe hot flashes of menopause.

DART began passenger service on the 26-mile Silver Line, a 10-station regional rail route running east-west from Plano through Richardson, Addison, Carrollton and Coppell to DFW International Airport. It is the agency's first rail link from the northern suburbs straight into the airport, and rides were free for the first two weeks.

Miami-Dade's first bus rapid transit service runs 20 miles along US-1 from Dadeland South to Florida City on a rebuilt dedicated busway protected by gate arms and prioritised at rush hour, calling at 14 new BRT stations with air-conditioned waiting areas. The county calls it the longest all-electric BRT service in the nation, paid for with $100 million each from its half-penny transportation surtax, the Florida Department of Transportation and the Federal Transit Administration.