Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The maker of Fortune cooking oil drops the Adani name and becomes AWL Agri Business Limited under a fresh certificate of incorporation, as agreed in the Adani exit deal.

Verizon became the first US carrier to let customers text any other phone by satellite when out of cellular range, starting with Samsung Galaxy S25 and Google Pixel 9 phones.

A Central Jakarta anti-corruption court panel led by Judge Djuyamto found Wilmar Group, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau had done what prosecutors charged but ruled it was not a crime, rejecting a Rp 11.88 trillion restitution demand against Wilmar.

A 5-1 vote closed Excel High School, Community Academy, Mary Lyon Pilot High School and the Dever Elementary at the end of 2025-26, moving about 1,300 students.

A hacker called rose87168 put 6 million records up for sale that they said came from Oracle Cloud's single sign-on login servers; Oracle denied any breach of Oracle Cloud.

PLDT inaugurated its Digos, Davao del Sur landing station for the 12,000-kilometre Apricot cable, one of two Philippine landings that give PLDT routes facing the Pacific rather than the West Philippine Sea.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o to feel more intuitive and collaborative, with cleaner frontend code, better instruction following and clearer communication.

The Science Based Targets initiative approves Wilmar's goals to cut absolute Scope 1 and 2 emissions 50.4% and Scope 3 emissions 30% by 2032 from 2022, and 90% by 2050, plus land-use (FLAG) targets.

Production I.G's Kaiju No. 8 compilation film opens in Japan, recutting the first season around a new sequence in which intelligent kaiju attack a Defense Force base.

Attackers copied patient data from old Cerner data-migration servers that Oracle Health had not yet moved to Oracle Cloud, and US hospitals were then extorted over it.

Felipe Oliveira and Hiro Tagai, of ramen bar Koyoté, open an itameshi restaurant - Japanese-Italian cooking - in Salt Lake City.

Hershey signed a merger agreement for LesserEvil, the maker of organic popcorn, puffs and curls cooked in coconut and avocado oil, to add a better-for-you brand beside SkinnyPop, Dot's Pretzels and Pirate's Booty. Hershey paid $769 million in cash at closing; The Wall Street Journal had put the deal at about $750 million.

US District Judge Dale Ho dismissed the five-count federal corruption indictment against New York City Mayor Eric Adams with prejudice, so it cannot be brought again, refusing the Justice Department's request to drop it without prejudice.

Verizon guaranteed new and existing myPlan and myHome customers that their base plan price would not change for three years, with the lock resetting on every plan change, until it quietly stopped offering it on mobile plans in June 2026.

Koupen-chan begins broadcast, a one-minute-per-episode slice-of-life anime starring the plush, dumpling-shaped baby emperor penguin character of the same name.

A-1 Pictures' hit romantic comedy about a bystander who keeps consoling the girls who lost the love race, Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, was renewed for a second season at a fan event in April 2025.

Transport for London opened the Silvertown Tunnel, a new road crossing under the Thames built to relieve the perennially congested Blackwall Tunnel a few hundred metres away.

Vuori named Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning its newest Vuori Athlete, an NIL deal struck in its 10th-anniversary year as he prepared for his first season as the Longhorns' starter.

A New York Helicopters Bell 206L-4 tour flight from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport broke apart and fell into the Hudson River off Jersey City, killing the pilot and a family of five from Spain.

Ferrero Canada will spend C$445 million expanding its Brantford plant, adding 500 jobs and the first lines anywhere for new Ferrero Rocher chocolate squares, plus Nutella Biscuits made outside Europe for the first time.

Alo sued a Colorado shell company named "ALO YOGA ALO, LLC" and two men it says forged documents, posed as its CEO and tried to take over its trademarks in China and at WIPO to sell counterfeits.

Prosecutors named the three judges who cleared Wilmar, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau as bribery suspects, alleging Rp 60 billion was arranged through lawyers and a court clerk to buy the verdict.

Istanbul's 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia began restoring its dome to withstand a major earthquake, a phase of a 50-year plan to reinforce the building with no fixed finish date.

A magnitude 5.2 quake 5 km south of Julian on the Elsinore fault zone was felt from Los Angeles to Ensenada, closing San Diego City Hall for inspections and knocking boulders onto State Route 76.

OpenAI releases o3, its most powerful reasoning model, and o4-mini, a smaller model optimized for fast, cost-efficient reasoning.

AWL Agri Business takes 80% of G.D. Foods Manufacturing, owner of the Tops sauces and pickles brand, making it a subsidiary; the other 20% is due by fiscal 2028-29.

Sharon Lokedi of Kenya won the women's race in 2:17:22, breaking the 2014 course record of 2:19:59, and John Korir won the men's race in 2:04:45 after falling in the opening meters. Marcel Hug took his eighth wheelchair title on the 250th anniversary of Patriots' Day.

Shareholders passed every resolution at Wilmar's Biopolis headquarters; in written answers before the meeting, the company told a shareholder urging Kuok Khoon Hong to quit as CEO that he would hand over to a good successor.

A bonus Natsume's Book of Friends Season 7 episode, bundled with the season's fifth Blu-ray volume, adds a standalone story to spirit-sighted teenager Takashi Natsume's ongoing run-ins with the yokai around him.

President Marcos and PLDT chairman Manuel Pangilinan inaugurated VITRO Sta. Rosa, a 50-megawatt hyperscale data centre in Laguna with NVIDIA-powered GPU servers for AI workloads.

Nevada gaming regulators unanimously fined MGM Resorts $8.5 million for letting illegal bookmakers Wayne Nix and Mathew Bowyer gamble with illicit cash at MGM Grand and The Cosmopolitan, where the Grand alone took $4,079,830 of Nix's proceeds by 2020.

Vuori welcomed Michigan tight end Colston Loveland, a 2023 national champion from Idaho, as a Vuori Athlete as the Chicago Bears took him 10th overall in the 2025 NFL Draft.

Ferrero-owned Wells Enterprises recalled 17,866 three-gallon tubs of ice cream and frozen yogurt in 22 flavours, shipped to 103 distribution centres, because pieces of plastic might be inside.

Food products and plantations lifted the quarter while tropical-oil refining stayed tough and sugar volume fell 41.5%; Wilmar warned US tariffs made the rest of the year uncertain.

Cindy Crawford, Rande Gerber and their children Kaia and Presley became Vuori ambassadors and creative, strategic and financial partners, starring in and art-directing its Spring/Summer 2025 campaign.

Shenman Entertainment releases Shen Yin Wangzuo Movie: Yi Lai Ke Si Chuanqi, a spinoff film in the Throne of Seal donghua franchise retelling the legend of the Holy Necromancer God Yi Lai Ke Si and his war against the undead.

Chef Isao Yamada opens a minimalist kaiseki counter on Elizabeth Street, serving the seasonal Japanese multi-course form without spectacle.

Hershey's first-quarter net sales fell 13.8% to $2.81 billion and adjusted EPS 32% to $2.09 as it lapped last year's pre-ERP stock build and a later Easter; it held its 2025 outlook and put Q2 tariff costs at $15-20 million.

King Charles III officially opened the Thames Tideway Tunnel, a 25km deep sewer built to stop billions of litres of sewage overflowing into the Thames each year.

OpenAI improves GPT-4o's system instructions so ChatGPT calls its image generation tool when users want an image.