Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Dow appointed chief operating officer Karen S. Carter, a 30-year company veteran, to succeed Jim Fitterling as chief executive on 1 July 2026, which Fortune says makes her the first Black woman to lead a major US chemical company.

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.

Anthropic makes Claude Opus 4.7 generally available, a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, especially on the hardest tasks.

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.

John Korir of Kenya defended his title in 2:01:52, more than a minute under Geoffrey Mutai's 2011 course record, with the next two men also under the old mark. Sharon Lokedi repeated in 2:18:51 and Marcel Hug won the wheelchair race for a ninth time.

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.

TSMC's largest annual customer event opened its 2026 series at the Santa Clara Convention Center on 22 April, where it debuted the A13 process, previewed A12 and introduced N2U.

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.

Nike COO Venkatesh Alagirisamy told staff on 23 April 2026 that about 1,400 global operations roles, mostly in technology, would go as Nike reshapes its tech team, modernises Air manufacturing and moves some Converse footwear work.

The Chicago Transit Authority started building the $5.7 billion, 5.5-mile extension of the Red Line south from 95th/Dan Ryan, with a ceremony at the site of the future Michigan Avenue station. Four new accessible stations near 103rd Street, 111th Street, Michigan Avenue and 130th Street will bring rapid transit to the Far South Side for the first time.

Related Digital secured financing for its $16 billion data center campus built for Oracle and OpenAI in Michigan: equity from Related and Blackstone funds, fixed-rate long-term debt anchored by PIMCO.

Microsoft's license to OpenAI's models and products becomes non-exclusive through 2032 and OpenAI may sell on any cloud, while OpenAI's revenue-share payments to Microsoft continue through 2030 under a total cap and Microsoft stops paying one back.

Oracle and BorderPlex replaced Project Jupiter's planned gas turbines and diesel generators with up to 2.45 GW of Bloom fuel cells, cutting NOx by about 92% at the Stargate campus in Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

Former Unilever chief growth and marketing officer Esi Eggleston Bracey joins Lululemon's board and will stand at the 2026 annual meeting in place of retiring director Shane Grant.

Figure said its BotQ plant had gone from building one Figure 03 a day to one an hour in under 120 days - a 24x ramp that delivered more than 350 of its third-generation humanoids, with end-of-line first-pass yield above 80% and over 9,000 actuators built.

Revenue jumped 22% with India's AWL now consolidated, but unrealised hedging losses from the Iran war and weaker associates cut net profit to US$265.6 million.

Chef Ned Baldwin, a fisherman's son, opens an airy seafood restaurant in Brooklyn.

A federal magistrate judge in Oregon on 30 April 2026 consolidated the Widmia and Gomez class actions over Nike's January 2026 data breach and appointed interim co-lead class counsel; Nike moved to dismiss the consolidated complaint on 17 July.

The final structural beam went in at the top of the 660-foot guitar-shaped hotel tower, built on the former site of the Mirage's volcano and holding 675 of the resort's rooms. The $4 billion Hard Rock Las Vegas is a full rebuild of the Mirage, which closed on 17 July 2024, and is expected to open in the fourth quarter of 2027.