Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Oracle said it would raise $45 billion to $50 billion in 2026, half from a single bond sale and half from mandatory convertible preferred stock and a $20 billion at-the-market share programme, to build capacity for its AI customers.

The day after its funding plan, Oracle sold $25 billion of notes in eight tranches and $5 billion of 6.50% mandatory convertible preferred stock, drawing what it called a record, substantially oversubscribed order book.

The NFL's fan festival took over 500,000 square feet of Moscone Center for Super Bowl week, with all 59 Super Bowl rings, the Lombardi Trophy and a 40-yard dash, ahead of the game in Santa Clara.

Barrows v. Oracle says Oracle misled investors that its AI data-center spending for OpenAI would quickly turn into revenue, covering stock bought June-December 2025.

OpenAI restores GPT-5.2 Thinking's Extended thinking level in ChatGPT, undoing a reduction made by mistake in January.

The EEOC filed a subpoena enforcement action against Nike in federal court in St. Louis on 4 February 2026, seeking workforce data for its probe of whether Nike's DEI targets led to discrimination against white workers.

Hershey ended a cocoa- and tariff-hit 2025 with full-year net income down 60% to $883 million on sales up 4.4% to $11.7 billion, then guided 2026 to 4-5% sales growth and a 30-35% rebound in adjusted earnings per share.

Hershey lifted its quarterly dividend to $1.452 a share from $1.370, its first increase after holding the payout flat through the cocoa and tariff squeeze of 2025, alongside a forecast of a 30-35% earnings rebound in 2026.

Ferrero's turnover rose 4.6% to EUR 19.3 billion in the year to 31 August 2025, with capital investment of close to EUR 1.1 billion and the WK Kellogg Co cereal deal closing just after year-end.

About 135 Canadian athletes paraded in Lululemon's burgundy-and-red maple-leaf kit at the first Olympic opening ceremony held across four sites, with flag bearers Mikaël Kingsbury and Marielle Thompson leading in Livigno.

The DanMachi franchise confirmed a sixth anime season of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? at its "Aedes Vesta" 10th anniversary event, following the Goddess of the Harvest arc of season 5.

Toronto's long-delayed 19km Eglinton Crosstown light rail line entered service as TTC Line 5, six years behind its original 2020 target.

Kinder Bueno makes Ferrero's Super Bowl debut in Super Bowl LX with a 30-second space-themed spot starring William Fichtner and Paige DeSorbo.

Salesforce put Joe Inzerillo over both Slack and Agentforce and named new security, marketing and architecture chiefs, replacing five senior executives who had left since December.

A new training platform built on PowerLu, Lululemon's highest filament-count fabric, for heavy lifts and deep squats, wear-tested by Lewis Hamilton and Kayla Jeter and launched in North America.

A non-binding MoU for Aramco to explore industrial AI built on Microsoft Azure, a sovereign-cloud roadmap meeting Saudi data-residency rules and a global marketplace for co-developed energy AI, alongside AI, cybersecurity and data skills programmes in the Kingdom.

A shopper sued Alo in Los Angeles federal court in a proposed class action claiming it sent marketing texts to numbers on the National Do-Not-Call Registry, months after a first texting suit was dropped.

Tic Tac packs Dr Pepper's 23-flavour blend into its pocket mint, a limited-time US collaboration arriving at select retailers before a nationwide roll-out.

Two more of the ten Common Central Secretariat blocks on Kartavya Path, along with the Seva Teerth complex, were inaugurated, taking to three the number of buildings in service in the Central Vista's replacement for Shastri, Nirman and Krishi Bhawan. The first three blocks, designed by HCP and built by Shapoorji Pallonji, cost 3,690 crore rupees and each spans about 150,000 sq m over seven floors and two basements.

Bandai Namco Pictures revisits the Yoshiwara Arc for the big screen as part of Gintama's 20th-anniversary project, following Gintoki and friends into the pleasure district to help a young pickpocket find his long-lost mother.

A two-week stopgap for DHS alone ran out on 14 February 2026, and the department stayed unfunded for 76 days - the longest shutdown of a single agency in US history - until the President signed a bipartisan bill on 30 April.

A three-week training house at 8175 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, the physical home of Lululemon's YET campaign, drew more than 2,300 people to over 60 classes, with ticket proceeds going to BlacklistLA.

Nestlé grew 3.5% organically in 2025 on sales of CHF 89.5 billion, proposed a dividend of CHF 3.10 a share, up 5 centimes, and set out a focus on four businesses: Coffee, Petcare, Nutrition and Food & Snacks. It guided to around 3% to 4% organic growth in 2026.

Barcelona's basilica tops out its 172.5-metre central tower, making it the world's tallest church, timed for the centenary of Antoni Gaudí's death. Estimated date.

Studio Khara debuts a new short Evangelion animation at the "EVANGELION:30+" 30th-anniversary fan event in Yokohama Arena, marking three decades since Neon Genesis Evangelion's original broadcast.

Khara and CloverWorks revealed a brand-new Evangelion anime series at the close of the franchise's 30th anniversary festival, with NieR creator Yoko Taro writing and Kazuya Tsurumaki and Tōko Yatabe directing.

The Blizzard of 2026 dropped 17.1 inches on Logan Airport on 23 February 2026 and more than three feet on parts of southeastern Massachusetts, with a 68 mph gust at Logan and Boston's first blizzard warning since January 2022.

Alo Yoga confirmed its first Australian stores, at Chatswood Chase and a two-level, 700 m² store at Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney.

Four months after presenting Blue Jay as its newest warehouse system - a single workspace where several robotic arms pick, stow and consolidate about 75% of the item types Amazon stocks - Amazon said it was no longer using it in operations, keeping only the underlying technology.

Salesforce closed fiscal 2026 with $41.5 billion of revenue, up 10%, authorised a new $50 billion buyback, lifted its dividend 5.8% to $0.44 and raised its FY2030 target to $63 billion.

PLDT posted record 2025 EBITDA of ₱111.2 billion and core income up 1% to ₱34.6 billion, but reported net income fell 7% to ₱30.0 billion; the board declared a ₱46 final dividend and guided 2026 capex to the mid-₱50 billion range.

Aldi Polska cut the ribbon on a 43,000 m2 distribution centre at Emilianów near Warsaw, its third in Poland after Chorzów and Lisi Ogon, supplying about 120 stores in central and north-eastern Poland.

Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox return to the Ghostface franchise in a film written and directed by original series creator Kevin Williamson.

A Santa Barbara Superior Court upheld its July preliminary injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting the Las Flores onshore pipeline system that ruptured at Refugio State Beach in 2015, requiring 10 court days' notice before any restart. The ruling also clarifies that the Trump administration's December move to seize control of the system and issue an emergency special permit does not affect the court's prior decision.

Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha, of Ha's Snack Bar, open a French bistro seasoned by Ha's Vietnamese heritage on Eldridge Street.

Vinnie Cimino and Andrew Watts, of Cordelia, open a wood-fired restaurant in Ohio City inspired by the Istrian Peninsula.