Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

OpenAI adds GPT-5-Codex-Mini, a smaller, cheaper GPT-5-Codex with about 4x more usage, to the Codex CLI and IDE extension.

B&W sold $67.5 million of new shares through its at-the-market program in two days, about $50 million of it to a single institutional investor, then paused the sales. The money backs its move into power for AI factories and data centres.

Vuori entered mountain apparel with Vuori Snow, waterproof Taika shells, pants and bibs made from Bureo's NetPlus fabric of 100% recycled fishing nets, developed with freestyle skier Thibault Magnin.

Nike and Palace Skateboards opened Manor Place, a free hub in an 1895 bathhouse near Elephant and Castle whose skatepark lifts on steel columns to reveal an underground football cage.

PLDT's core income held at ₱25.8 billion in the first nine months of 2025 as Maya's ₱603 million offset a 5% drop in telco core income, and the group turned free-cash-flow positive a year ahead of its 2026 target.

Waymo robotaxis began carrying public riders on Bay Area freeways such as the 101 and 280, as its service grew into one zone of more than 260 square miles from San Francisco to San José, with curbside rides at San José's airport.

Closed since late 2023, Nike Portland in the historic Kress Building at 638 SW Fifth Avenue reopened as a running-led sport hub in Nike's hometown.

An executive order took cocoa and other farm goods out of President Trump's reciprocal tariffs, backdated to November 13. Hershey, which had asked the White House for the exemption, said cocoa is not grown in the US and supports more than 10,000 American jobs.

A 377-metre, 1,004-room supertall hotel on Dubai Marina's waterfront opened as the world's tallest hotel, its curved concrete form engineered to shed wind loads on a coastal site.

The 19-kilometre, 20-station Line 1 returned to service end to end after a stage-by-stage closure for CRRC's System+ modernisation, which brought new trains, Siemens CBTC signalling and a rebuilt Observatorio station with 13 lifts. Railway Gazette puts the PPP concession behind the work at 32.2 billion pesos.

Oracle Health's new EHR earned ONC Health IT certification and met the DEA's e-prescribing rules for controlled substances, clearing US ambulatory clinics to adopt it.

Salesforce closed its purchase of Informatica, funding the $25-a-share cash deal partly with $6 billion of bank borrowings and folding Informatica's data management into Data 360, MuleSoft and Agentforce 360.

Salesforce revoked every token held by Gainsight-published apps and pulled them from the AppExchange after spotting API calls from unrecognised IPs into customers' Salesforce data.

Aramco signed a preliminary agreement with Commonwealth LNG, developer of a planned 9.5 mtpa export plant near Cameron, Louisiana, on Aramco Trading potentially buying its LNG, and Aramco-backed MidOcean Energy signed an MoU on investing in Lake Charles LNG. Both were among 17 US deals Aramco announced at the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington.

The Nevada Gaming Commission voted 4-1 to fine Caesars Entertainment $7.8 million after state agents found bookmaker Mathew Bowyer gambled millions at Caesars Palace and other Caesars properties over seven years, bringing the year's Bowyer fines to $26.8 million.

Nike's board declared a quarterly dividend of $0.41 per share, up 3% from $0.40, payable on 2 January 2026 to holders of record on 1 December 2025, the 24th straight year Nike raised its dividend.

Eli Lilly's market value crossed $1 trillion on 21 November 2025, making it the first drugmaker and first health-care company to join the club dominated by tech giants. Its shares hit a record $1,066.65 and closed at $1,059.70, driven by Zepbound and Mounjaro.

A house at 915 N Kagawa Street, built by Thomas James Homes in about six months, became the first home rebuilt after the Palisades Fire to be cleared for occupancy.

Max Verstappen won the Saturday-night race on the Strip from second on the grid; Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri were then thrown out for excessive plank wear, handing George Russell second and Kimi Antonelli third.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5, its new flagship model with state-of-the-art coding and agentic performance at lower pricing.

Abbott began a medical device correction for about 3 million FreeStyle Libre 3 and Libre 3 Plus sensors in the U.S. after internal testing found some give incorrect low glucose readings, an issue it linked to 736 severe adverse events and seven deaths worldwide. The FDA later made it a Class I recall.

Aldi Polska opened its 400th Polish store on 26 November 2025 in the new Rock Park retail centre in Tarnobrzeg, a 1,000 m2 shop in its new fresh-food layout, with more openings due before year-end.

Work started on the 456,100 sq m site of the former Yongsan train depot in central Seoul, to be built out as a cluster of skyscrapers including towers of more than 100 storeys on land held 7 to 3 by Korail and the Seoul Housing and Urban Development Corporation. Foundational roads, parks and parking are due by 2028, with the first move-ins from 2030.

Aldi Nord's rebuilt store in Wolfsburg-Wendschott, a timber-frame building with 1,300 square metres of sales floor, is the first in Germany built to a building specification Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd now share.

San Diego FC's record-setting expansion season ended at a sold-out Snapdragon Stadium, where Vancouver Whitecaps FC won the Western Conference Final 3-1 in front of 32,502 fans.

The Middle East's largest liquids-rich shale gas play came on stream with a first phase of about 450 million cubic feet a day, the start of a ramp to 2 billion cubic feet a day of sales gas by 2030.

Mayor Daniel Lurie swore in City College trustee Alan Wong as District 4 supervisor at Abraham Lincoln High School, the Sunset's third supervisor since October after his first pick, Beya Alcaraz, resigned a week into the job.

City Attorney David Chiu filed the first government lawsuit against ultra-processed food makers, accusing Kraft Heinz, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé USA and six others of engineering addictive products they knew made people sick.

Elliott Hill named supply-chain chief Venkatesh Alagirisamy EVP and chief operating officer over technology and operations, eliminated the chief commercial and chief technology officer roles, and put Nike's four geography leaders on the senior leadership team.

The Jakarta anti-corruption court sentenced judges Djuyamto, Agam Syarief Baharuddin and Ali Muhtarom to 11 years each for taking bribes to acquit Wilmar, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau; former court chief Muhammad Arif Nuryanta got 12.5 years.

Salesforce's third fiscal quarter brought $10.3 billion of revenue, up 9%, a backlog of $59.5 billion and Agentforce ARR above $500 million, and it lifted its full-year outlook after closing Informatica.

Salmonella was found in a batch of All Seasons 8 Kräuter frozen herbs sold in Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd stores in all 16 German states and online, and the producer called it back.

The nearly 8-mile extension runs south from Angle Lake along I-5 and adds Kent Des Moines, Star Lake and Federal Way Downtown stations. Sound Transit moved the $2.5 billion project's opening up from an earlier target of March 2026.

Babcock & Wilcox received a limited notice to proceed on engineering and long-lead purchasing for a SolveBright CO2-capture system at an unnamed existing US power plant, sized to capture more than 550,000 tons a year. The full contract, expected by March 2026, is worth an estimated $80 million; the plant is not named, so the pin sits at B&W's Akron headquarters.

OpenAI hired Slack chief executive Denise Dresser, a Salesforce executive for more than 14 years, as chief revenue officer; Slack product chief Rob Seaman stepped in as interim CEO.

Routine checks after new equipment went into a line at Nestlé's Dutch infant-formula plant found traces of the toxin cereulide, so Nestlé recalled every batch made since - 25 batches, including NAN formula, in 16 European countries.

Judge Charles Breyer granted California a preliminary injunction ending the continued federalization of the California National Guard troops still in and around Los Angeles, more than five months after they were sent.