Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

US envoy Steve Witkoff announced the second phase of Trump's 20-point Gaza plan, moving 'from ceasefire to demilitarization, technocratic governance, and reconstruction' under a 15-member Palestinian technocratic committee.

A software issue took down Verizon Wireless across the US for about ten hours, from around noon until 10:15 PM ET, with Downdetector counting more than 178,000 affected at the peak; Verizon gave affected customers a $20 credit.

The Netflix original anime Love Through A Prism (Prism Rondo) begins streaming, a Wit Studio-produced coming-of-age drama set at a London art academy in the early 1900s.

Wilmar's China arm sells its 50% stakes in Yihai Kerry Kellogg's Food (Shanghai) and (Kunshan) to Mars Wrigley China for US$45 million and US$15 million, after Mars bought Kellanova.

Nia DaCosta directs the second film in Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's post-apocalyptic trilogy, continuing straight from 28 Years Later.

Madhouse returns with a second season of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, following the elf mage Frieren and her party through the perilous Northern Plateau on their way to the ancient capital of Aureole.

The 35,000-square-metre market at the head of Blackwattle Bay opened its doors at 7am, replacing the 1966 shed two kilometres away in Pyrmont and roughly doubling retail space across more than 40 food and seafood operators. Designed by Danish architects 3XN/GXN with BVN and Aspect Studios and built by Multiplex, it adds over 6,000 square metres of public open space on the harbour foreshore.

Elliott Hill moved APLA chief Cathy Sparks to lead Greater China as Angela Dong leaves, named César Garcia to succeed retiring Carl Grebert in EMEA, and made Crissy Campbell interim head of APLA.

Verizon closed its $20 billion purchase of Frontier Communications, making it a wholly owned subsidiary and extending Verizon's fiber reach to almost 30 million passings across 31 states and DC.

Cosmic Princess Kaguya!, a Studio Colorido and Studio Chromato reimagining of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, streams on Netflix, blending Japan's oldest folktale with music and modern animation.

OpenAI updates GPT-5.2 Instant's default personality to be more conversational and better at adapting its tone to context.

Christophe Gans returns to the Silent Hill film series with a reboot loosely based on the video game Silent Hill 2, starring Jeremy Irvine and Hannah Emily Anderson.

Negotiators from the US, Ukraine and Russia met together for the first time since the full-scale invasion, in two days of UAE-hosted talks in Abu Dhabi that ended without agreement as Russia kept demanding the rest of Donetsk.

A weather power outage at a primary US data centre operated by Oracle hit tens of thousands of servers, leaving TikTok's US app buggy for a week just after the joint venture took over.

Aramco priced $4 billion of US dollar bonds in four tranches, from three to 30 years at coupons of 4% to 6%, drawing about $21 billion of orders. It was the company's first bond sale of 2026, listed in London.

Nike filed WARN notices on 26 January 2026 for 583 layoffs at two Memphis distribution centres and 193 in Byhalia, Mississippi, effective 3 April, part of 775 job cuts it tied to more automation.

LVMH's full-year 2025 revenue fell 5% on a reported basis to €80.8 billion, with organic revenue down 1%, as profit from recurring operations came to €17.8 billion and net profit held at €10.9 billion.

The LVCVA reported 38.5 million visitors for 2025, down 7.5% from 41.7 million in 2024 and capped by a 9.2% drop in December, with hotel occupancy down 3.3 points to 80.3%.

The rebuild of the north end of SEA's main terminal added the airport's first at-scale automated bag drops, a redesigned Checkpoint 6, a new Bridge Level check-in, upgraded baggage claim devices and eight major public art installations. The Port of Seattle and Alaska Airlines marked the finish of major construction, the first of a run of Upgrade SEA projects due to complete before the summer's international soccer tournament.

Waymo began fully autonomous rides at San Francisco International Airport for a select group of riders, with pickups and drop-offs at the SFO Rental Car Center and the terminals to follow.

US District Judge Margaret Garnett dismissed the two federal gun counts against Luigi Mangione, including the only death-eligible charge, leaving two stalking counts that carry up to life in prison.

Anthropic took a 13-year lease on all 420,000 square feet of 300 Howard Street, formerly 199 Fremont, one of San Francisco's largest office deals since 2019, as it grew past 1,300 staff in the Bay Area.

Shenman Entertainment's new donghua adaptation Way of Choices (Ze Tian Ji) begins streaming, following Chen Changsheng, a young man prophesied to die young who defies fate by pursuing an ancient path to prolong his life.

Studio Gohan's Playing Sister begins streaming, a psychological thriller about a middle schooler who comes to suspect the sister just discharged from the hospital isn't really her sister at all.

Star Detective Precure! begins broadcast, the 23rd entry in Toei's long-running magical-girl franchise, following student Anna Akechi after a mysterious pendant flings her back nearly three decades to team up with an aspiring detective and transform into a Precure.

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.

Bad Bunny's DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS won Album of the Year at the 68th Grammys at Crypto.com Arena, the first Spanish-language album to take the top prize, while Kendrick Lamar and SZA won Record of the Year and Olivia Dean Best New Artist.

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.