Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

PLDT's first-half 2026 core income held at ₱17.3 billion while reported net income fell to ₱16.4 billion; the board declared a ₱46 interim dividend, a 60% payout, and Pangilinan declined to give full-year guidance.

PLDT said faulty controls over structured hedge accounting were a material weakness at end-2025, and its auditor SGV withdrew its opinions on the 2025 statements and controls in the US Form 20-F, which PLDT will amend after an Audit Committee review.

Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to interstate stalking and cyberstalking resulting in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, telling the judge "I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died."

Collector-car auctions during 2026 Monterey Car Week totalled a record $755.6 million across five auction houses, according to Hagerty, led by a 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe at $42.9 million and a bespoke Ferrari Luce 'Tailor Made' that sold for $40 million.

Open-ear clip-on wireless earbuds with a smart dial built into the charging case.

The Buffalo Bills' roughly $2.1 billion open-air replacement for Highmark Stadium hosted its first game across the road from the team's old venue in Orchard Park, New York.

NVIDIA guarantees leases on about 4.25 GW of AI factory capacity at SB Energy's PORTS-Pike campus on the old Portsmouth uranium-enrichment plant in Pike County, Ohio, with OpenAI as tenant and NVIDIA's exposure capped at $105 billion.

All 30 MLB owners approved the transfer of the Padres to José E. Feliciano and Kwanza Jones, with Feliciano as control person, ending the Seidler family's ownership.

Entry-level turntable with a built-in Bluetooth transmitter in multiple color options.

A third northwest Louisiana data center campus, at Resilient Technology Park in Shreveport, lifts Amazon's planned investment from $12 billion to $18 billion and its expected jobs to up to 750 across three campuses.

Shares in China's best-known humanoid maker opened at 1,100 yuan on Shanghai's STAR Market, 629% above the 150.8-yuan offer price, valuing Unitree at about 445 billion yuan (US$66 billion). Some 9.8 million retail accounts had chased 9.7 million shares.

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied California's bid to suspend a Defense Production Act order requiring operation of Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Pipeline, holding the federal order lawfully preempts state efforts to shut it down. The court also shifted pipeline safety oversight under the consent decree from California's Office of the State Fire Marshal to the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

Limited-edition handheld console finished in glossy red and 24-karat gold.

Waymo opened its sixth-generation Ojai robotaxi, built by Zeekr, to the general public in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix, with Denver, San Diego and Las Vegas to follow.

Vuori's first Tampa store, a 5,618 sq ft space on the second floor of International Plaza, was set to open on 21 August 2026 next to TravisMathew.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum signed the Record of Decision and 2027-2028 Operating Guidelines for Lake Powell and Lake Mead, cutting Lower Basin deliveries by 1.25 million acre-feet a year for two years, 50,000 of them Nevada's, as both reservoirs hit record lows.

The second edition brought 2,056 robots from 666 teams to the National Speed Skating Oval for 51 events, from football and tug of war to firefighting drills. Tiangong Ultra took the humanoid 100 m to 8.86 seconds - faster than Usain Bolt's human record.

Fort Wayne, Marion and Indianapolis's Roudebush VA medical centres moved to the Federal EHR, taking VA to 11 hospitals live in 2026 and more than 617,000 veterans on the system.

At the French-Saudi Investment Roundtable in Paris, Aramco announced a drilling-equipment procurement agreement, an oil country tubular goods purchase deal and an Aramco Digital MoU on industrial AI and digital twins, worth a potential $3.7 billion combined. It came during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to France.

Appeals judges largely affirmed an injunction won by San Francisco and seven other local governments, stopping HUD and the Transportation Department from tying grants to anti-DEI, immigration and abortion conditions, protecting about $240 million a year in HUD money and $2 billion in DOT funding to the city.

The FDA authorized Abbott's Libre Duo 10 Day, the first wearable to continuously track both glucose and ketones, which alerts people with diabetes aged 2 and older to rising ketones before diabetic ketoacidosis.

Salesforce's fiscal second quarter brought $11.3 billion of revenue, up 11%, GAAP EPS of $4.29 lifted by a $2.6 billion gain on its Anthropic stake, a higher full-year outlook and the stock's second-best day ever.

NVIDIA's revenue more than doubled from a year earlier to a record $96.2 billion for the quarter ended 26 July 2026, with Data Center at $89.0 billion, and it guided the third quarter to $108 billion.

Abbott's next-generation Amulet 360 left atrial appendage occluder received CE Mark to cut stroke risk in non-valvular atrial fibrillation, with the first European implants done in Frankfurt, Lubeck and Aarhus.

Flagship wireless subwoofer with dual-opposed 6.5-inch woofers and 350 watts of power.

High-end streaming preamplifier combining an 8-channel 32-bit DAC with versatile connectivity.

Jordan Brand's 41st Air Jordan game shoe, with a nano print mesh upper, ZoomX midsole and a new Air Zoom heel unit, launched first as a limited 'Ruby' release in China.

Seven-model loudspeaker range with redesigned drivers and sustainably sourced European walnut veneer.