Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Rackspace is cutting about 15% of its global workforce, roughly 750 of some 5,000 employees, mostly in legacy public-cloud services, to redeploy money into enterprise AI.

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.

Nike hired Pfizer finance chief David Denton as EVP and chief financial officer from 17 August 2026, replacing Matt Friend, and warned in the same release that fourth-quarter results would include an unplanned benefit from tariff refunds.

Qualcomm agreed to buy Modular, Chris Lattner's startup whose AI software runs models across CPUs, GPUs, NPUs and custom chips without rewrites, in an all-stock deal of up to 19.2 million shares valued at about $3.9 billion.

Qualcomm and Meta signed a multi-generation agreement making Qualcomm a data-centre CPU supplier to Meta, whose next-generation server fleet is to run Qualcomm's Dragonfly C1000, in production from the second half of 2028.

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.

The Missile Defense Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a seven-year contract worth up to $35 billion to quadruple production of THAAD interceptors, one of the first multiyear deals under the Department of War's Acquisition Transformation Strategy.

The 30th Rim of the Pacific exercise brought 30 nations, 30 ships, five submarines, more than 190 aircraft and more than 30,000 personnel to waters in and around the Hawaiian Islands from 24 June to 31 July 2026.