Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Vuori opened in downtown Naperville, Illinois, on 5 June 2026, taking over the former Eddie Bauer store at 110 West Jefferson Avenue.

The quiet supersonic demonstrator reached Mach 1.1 and 43,400 feet on an 81-minute flight from Edwards Air Force Base, the first time it exceeded the speed of sound. A NASA F-15 chase plane flew alongside, its own booms drowning out anything the X-59 made.

The VA switched the Cincinnati, Chillicothe, Dayton and Fort Thomas medical centres to the Federal EHR, its second 2026 wave, serving more than 107,000 veterans.

The 7 June 2026 deadline to write the Pay Transparency Directive into national law passed with only Italy, Slovakia and Malta (and, by some counts, Lithuania) done; the Netherlands, Sweden, Czechia and Denmark said they would apply it from 1 January 2027.

A magnitude 7.8 quake off southern Mindanao cut power to PLDT and Smart sites around General Santos; by 10 June Smart had service back in 22 of 24 affected provinces, with Starlink links filling gaps.

Babcock & Wilcox is collaborating with TerraSpark on the TerraSpark Energy Campus near the Mount Storm power complex in Grant County, West Virginia, with an expected scope of four 400 MW supercritical boilers, full emissions controls and construction. The campus pairs a 1.6 GW coal plant with Mantel's carbon capture.

The MTA started the major construction stage of the 1.5-mile extension that carries the Q from 96th Street to Harlem-125th Street, with new stations at 106th, 116th and 125th Streets. A tunnel boring machine goes underground in early 2027 and trains are due in 2032.

A financing platform for more than 20 GW of Broadcom XPU compute for frontier AI labs through 2028, opening with a $35 billion tranche led by Apollo with Blackstone to fund Anthropic's 1 GW-plus expansion at Fluidstack sites.

PLDT shareholders elected 13 directors at the Grand Hyatt Manila, where Manny Pangilinan said the VITRO REIT IPO could raise $300-400 million from eight data centres.

Cosm opened a 70,000-square-foot, three-level venue built around an 87-foot 12K LED dome in Atlanta's Gulch, showing Game 4 of the NBA Finals on its first night. It is the first attraction finished inside Centennial Yards, the $5 billion, 50-acre redevelopment of the rail gulch between State Farm Arena and Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

The Competition Appeal Tribunal approved a settlement that ends Which?'s GBP 480 million class action against Qualcomm with no payment, finding the claim no longer had a realistic prospect of success.

As FIFA's official telecom sponsor, Verizon ran the connectivity for the 104-match tournament, adding 5G spectrum to lift capacity three to five times at every US host stadium; its network reportedly carried nearly 500 TB, 29.2 TB of it at the final.

The donghua Fanren Xiu Xian Zhuan Di Wu Ji (A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, fifth season) begins streaming, continuing Original Force and Wonder Cat Animation's adaptation of Wang Yu's xianxia novel.

Folarin Balogun scored twice as the co-hosts opened their 2026 World Cup with a 4-1 win over Paraguay before 70,492 in Inglewood.

The Grade II-listed west London exhibition halls reopened as a mixed-use district with rooftop restaurants, offices, two hotels and the 3,800-capacity British Airways ARC music venue, which launched the following night. The GBP 1.3 billion transformation, designed by Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC, opens the 14-acre site to the public for the first time in 140 years; the 1,575-seat British Airways Theatre follows in 2027.

Salesforce signed a deal to buy Fin, the customer-service AI agent company formerly called Intercom, for about $3.6 billion to add fast-to-deploy service agents alongside Agentforce.

Robinhood cut about 10% of its full-time employees, roughly 290 people, to flatten management layers, booking about $28 million in charges.

At Augmented World Expo 2026 in Long Beach, Qualcomm launched Snapdragon Reality Elite, an XR platform with 48 TOPS of on-device AI and 4.4K-per-eye graphics that will power XREAL's Project Aura Android XR glasses.

DOE's Lux AI cluster, built by HPE with more than 4,000 AMD MI355X GPUs, was delivered to ORNL's leadership computing facility, starting installation of the first dedicated AI system for the Genesis Mission.

Pixar's fifth Toy Story film pits Woody, Buzz, and Jessie against Lilypad, a disruptive new tablet device competing for their kid Bonnie's attention.

The Obama Foundation's 19.3-acre campus in Jackson Park, built around a 225-foot museum tower, took its first visitors on Juneteenth, the day after a dedication ceremony at John Lewis Plaza. At roughly $850 million it is the most expensive presidential library yet built; ground was broken in September 2021 after years of lawsuits over the Jackson Park site.

PLDT's data centre arm VITRO filed its registration statement and REIT plan with the Philippine SEC for an IPO of up to PHP 24.2 billion, the country's first digital infrastructure REIT, backed by eight data centres of about 24 MW.

Yien Animation's Beyond Time's Gaze 2 begins release, the second season of the Chinese web-novel adaptation Guangyin Zhi Wai, continuing its cast's story as an ongoing original net animation.

Lucid is cutting about 18% of its U.S. workforce, roughly 1,500 people including factory workers, ending the second shift at its Arizona plant; COO Marc Winterhoff is out as the role is eliminated.

Microsoft's first datacenter in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, a single cluster of NVIDIA GB200 servers it calls the world's most powerful AI supercomputer, is fully operational after its equipment came online in April.

Harvard, Tishman Speyer and Breakthrough Properties cut the ribbon on the first phase of the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston: two commercial laboratory buildings called OneMilestone, the 343-apartment Verra, the Atlas Hotel, Harvard's David Rubenstein Treehouse conference centre, 40,000 square feet of retail and more than two acres of public open space. It is the opening move on a 36-acre site, with a Phase B of labs, offices and housing still to be permitted.

After a near-rejection, protests and arrests, councillors approved the $4.9 billion operating budget with $11.8 million of amendments, alongside a $4.4 billion five-year capital plan.

OpenAI's first Intelligence Processor, an inference accelerator it designed and Broadcom implemented, went from design to tape-out in nine months; Hock Tan and Charlie Kawwas handed it to Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.

By 7 votes to 1 the Rent Guidelines Board set 0% increases for one- and two-year leases on rent-stabilized apartments starting between 1 October 2026 and 30 September 2027. It fulfils Mayor Mamdani's campaign pledge and is the first freeze ever for two-year leases.

At an uncontested annual meeting after the Wilson settlement, shareholders elect Chip Bergh, Esi Eggleston Bracey and Teri List and back Chip Wilson's proposal to declassify the board by 73.1 million votes to 0.3 million.

Milly Alcock stars as Kara Zor-El in the second film of the new DC Universe, produced by James Gunn and directed by Craig Gillespie.