Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Tableau's annual conference took over the San Diego Convention Center for three days, where Tableau recast itself as an agentic analytics platform built on 33 million semantic models.

VCF 9.1 is Broadcom's private-cloud platform release for AI inference and agentic workloads, promising up to 40% lower server costs through memory tiering and mixed AMD, Intel and NVIDIA hardware; its release notes are dated 12 May.

Broadcom and VMware International asked the EU General Court to annul the Commission's 26 February 2026 information decision in case AT.40924, in so far as it compels documents held outside the EU and legal advice privileged under US and other non-EU law (Case T-280/26).

Salesforce's new Builder programme, run through its Futureforce university recruiting, set out to hire 1,000 graduates and interns into engineering, product and sales roles building Agentforce.

Six months after its 13,000-job cut, Verizon confirmed a new round of several hundred layoffs, under 1 percent of its workforce, falling hardest on its Basking Ridge, New Jersey campus.

Seven consumers filed a proposed class action against Nike in federal court in Oregon on 8 May 2026, saying it passed IEEPA tariff costs on through higher prices and should not keep the refunds it stands to get after the Supreme Court struck the tariffs down.

Canada's first WNBA team lost its debut 68-65 to the Washington Mystics before a sold-out 8,210 at Toronto's Coca-Cola Coliseum.

Phillips' Geneva Watch Auction XXIII totalled CHF 74,846,995 across 225 lots, the highest total for any watch auction in history, led by a Patek Philippe Ref. 2523 'Polychrome Two-Crown World Time' that sold for CHF 7,961,000.

The revived Portland Fire lost their first game 98-83 to the Chicago Sky, but the sold-out 19,335 was the largest crowd ever for a WNBA expansion team's home opener.

Aramco's first-quarter adjusted net income jumped to $33.6 billion from $26.6 billion as it ran the East-West Pipeline at its full 7 million barrels a day to export from the Red Sea while the Strait of Hormuz was choked off. The board held the base dividend at $21.9 billion, 3.5% up on a year earlier.

First-quarter revenue rose 44% to $214.4 million and adjusted EBITDA rose 296% to $16.1 million, while $81.8 million of non-cash warrant and stock costs left a $79.6 million net loss. Backlog stood at $2.7 billion and the pipeline passed $14 billion.

Vuori released a second, more technical golf range fronted by Tom Holland, led by slim Aim trousers with magnetic scorecard pockets, the Ponto half-zip and the Ace Polo.

Zaha Hadid Architects' single-mast Danjiang Bridge across the Tamsui River, now the world's longest single-mast cable-stayed bridge, is set to open to traffic in Taipei.

Swatch Group shareholders voted 79.6% against seating US investor Steven Wood on the board at their annual meeting, even after proxy advisers Glass Lewis and ISS backed him and the company's own bearer shareholders separately elected him with 80.4% support.

The Federal Circuit affirmed without opinion a Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruling, won by Lululemon, that the challenged claims of Nike's patent on sharing recorded workouts to social networking sites are unpatentable.

Crews placed the final steel beam on the frame of American Airlines' rebuilt Terminal 4 main concourse at LAX, finishing the major structural work before interiors go in.

Burberry reported revenue of £2.42 billion and a swing back to a £21 million profit for the year ended 28 March 2026, as comparable sales rose 2% for the year and 5% in the fourth quarter under CEO Joshua Schulman's turnaround plan.

The three biggest US carriers agreed in principle to form a joint venture pooling spectrum so satellite operators can reach phones directly and all but end wireless dead zones.

Audemars Piguet and Swatch launched the 'Royal Pop' collection, eight Bioceramic pocket watches built around the Royal Oak's octagonal design and priced from $400, sold only in person at 200 Swatch stores worldwide with a one-per-person daily limit.

Egypt has inaugurated the $15BN New Delta project, moving recycled water across the desert to reclaim up to 2.2 million feddans of new farmland west of the Nile Delta.

B&W sold 12.4 million new shares at $18.50 each, raising about $230 million with the underwriters' extra shares, and Applied Digital bought about 540,500 of them. The money is meant to expand steam turbine and boiler production for AI data centre power plants.

Danny Harris and Marco DeGeorge agree to sell Bella+Canvas, the blank T-shirt business they started in 1992 and ran beside Alo, to wholesaler SanMar, leaving Alo as their main brand.

An Assemblée nationale fact-finding mission found contaminated formula stayed on sale for weeks after the alert and that five weeks passed between Nestlé's first recall and France's health crisis centre hearing of it, and made 12 recommendations.

Ferrero plans ten seasonal and limited-edition Wonka products across chocolate, candy, ice cream and cereal for the US and Europe, in an exclusive global tie-up with Netflix.

To end a Superior Court trial and a Lincoln Club repeal initiative, the city agreed to cut the standard trash fee to $38.75 from July 2027 and to end paid parking in Balboa Park by January 2027.

People on the top 12 mg dose of Lilly's triple-hormone shot retatrutide lost an average of 28.3% of their body weight (70.3 lbs) over 80 weeks, and 30.3% by two years in the extension - weight loss at the level of bariatric surgery.

Saudi Arabia's NEOM authority paused further construction on The Line, its 170km linear megacity, until after 2030 amid a sweeping scale-back of the project's ambitions.

Richemont's group sales rose to €22.4 billion, up 11% at constant exchange rates, with operating profit of €4.5 billion for the year ended 31 March 2026, led by its Jewellery Maisons Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels.

Lululemon's first Greek store opened at Akadimias 17 and Voukourestiou in Kolonaki, central Athens, with franchise partner Arion Retail Group; a second followed at Golden Hall in June.

Aramco signed an agreement to transfer its stakes in the PRefChem refinery and petrochemical complex at Pengerang, Johor to PETRONAS, which will own and run it outright. Aramco committed $7 billion to the 300,000 b/d project in 2017; the sale comes as the Strait of Hormuz closure cut Saudi crude flows to Asia.

Ferrari unveiled the Luce, its first fully electric production car, at the Vela di Calatrava in Rome: a four-door, five-seat model with four electric motors making 1,050 CV, a 122 kWh battery, a range beyond 530 km, and design by Jony Ive and Marc Newson's LoveFrom studio.

Lilly moves into infectious disease by agreeing to buy Curevo (shingles), LimmaTech Biologics (staph and other bacteria) and Vaccine Company (Epstein-Barr virus) for up to $3.83 billion combined in cash.

Qualcomm's spring 2026 job cuts took effect across 11 San Diego sites, including its Morehouse Drive headquarters: 67 on 26 May and 38 more on 8 June, mostly in engineering, cybersecurity and IT.

MAPPA confirmed a third season of Dorohedoro at the end of Season 2's finale, keeping Caiman's grimy hunt through the Hole and the sorcerers' realm going.

Salesforce appointed Guy Wanger, its former EY lead audit partner, as chief accounting officer and principal accounting officer, starting on 15 June 2026.