Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

OpenAI switches off 3 models and endpoints on 1 December 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5, chatgpt-image-latest.

LeBron James's 24th signature shoe arrives in an almost all Tour Yellow colourway named for his 2002 'The Chosen One' Sports Illustrated cover, reported for $200.

Bad Monkey tells the story of Andrew Yancy, a one-time detective demoted to restaurant inspector in Southern Florida. A severed arm found by a tourist out fishing pulls Yancy into the world of greed and corruption that decimates the land and environment in both Florida and the Bahamas. And yes, there's a monkey. Season 2 starts on Apple TV.

Footwear News's annual 'Shoe Oscars' return on 2 December to honour the year's shoe of the year, brands, designers and style stars.

Spotify's annual Wrapped report closes the streaming year, and on 20 September 2026 Polymarket already treated it as settled: Bad Bunny was priced at 86%, with Drake at 7% and Taylor Swift at 3%. Wrapped has landed in the first week of December in recent years.

HPE is expected to report fiscal Q4 and full-year 2026 results after the close, most likely on Thursday 3 December, having guided to $13.9-14.8 billion of quarterly revenue and $1.20-1.30 of non-GAAP EPS; HPE has not yet announced the date.

Capcom's Monster Hunter Wilds is porting to Nintendo Switch 2 with local wireless four-player multiplayer and cross-play, with the "Ascendance" expansion and Master Rank content to follow in 2027.

The Reagan National Defense Forum, the yearly gathering of members of Congress, administration officials, senior military leaders and defence industry executives at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, meets on 4 and 5 December 2026.

美顺与长生 (Meishun and Changsheng, "Whispers of Time") is Li Lu's period family drama starring Liu Haocun (刘浩存) as a village girl married off at 16 and Huang Xuan (黄轩) as the husband whose mind stayed a child's after an injury, following them from the late 1970s to today. It wrapped in Baishan, Jilin in January 2026 and will air on Hunan TV and Mango TV. No date has been announced, so the premiere shown here is an estimate.

A brown-and-yellow VIRGINIA Adistar Jellyfish first worn by Pharrell at Paris Fashion Week in 2025, with brown mesh, earth-toned overlays and bright yellow accents, for $300.

Formula 1's first season under the 2026 rules ends with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina on Sunday 6 December 2026, the 24th and final round. On 20 September 2026 Kalshi priced the constructors' championship as all but over: Mercedes sat at 95-96%, with Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull all at 1-2%.

China's biggest aerospace and defence show, the 16th China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition, runs from 7 to 13 December 2026 at the Zhuhai International Airshow Center, its 30th-anniversary edition after a move from November.

New to the tour in 2026, a one-day VMware Explore for the US public sector, state and local governments and contractors, at the Ronald Reagan Building on 8 December.

Johnson & Johnson holds its first enterprise business review since December 2023, where CFO Joseph Wolk says it will set out growth above its 5% to 7% long-term target, with a clear line of sight to double digits by the end of the decade.

The Federal Open Market Committee announces its final 2026 rate decision at 2:00 p.m. ET on December 9, the last of the year’s eight scheduled meetings. On 20 September 2026 Kalshi had a second consecutive quarter-point hike as the favourite at 67%, with a hold at 31% and cuts priced near zero; Polymarket agreed almost to the point.

Broadcom reports its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2026 against its own guide of about $34.8 billion in revenue, up 93%, including $21.7 billion of AI semiconductor revenue.

After the 16 November nominations, Recording Academy Voting Members choose the 69th Grammy winners in final-round voting from 10 December 2026 to 7 January 2027.

Lululemon is expected to report its third quarter on Thursday 10 December 2026, having guided to a 10-11% revenue decline to $2.29-$2.32 billion and EPS of $0.93-$0.98, its first results under CEO Heidi O'Neill.

The stopgap signed in September expires on 11 December 2026, the deadline for Congress to enact the twelve fiscal 2027 appropriations bills or pass another continuing resolution before agencies shut down.

Twenty years after it was announced, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi opens on 11 December 2026 as the largest museum in the Guggenheim family - about 80,000 square metres, against roughly a quarter of that in New York. Frank Gehry arranged it around a single tall atrium with galleries threaded between ten sculptural cones, nine sheathed in stainless steel mesh and one in onyx and glass, so the roofline reads as a cluster of towers from across the Culture District.

Nike’s “Purple Venom” colorway of Caitlin Clark’s Caitlin 1 signature basketball shoe goes on sale December 12 for $140 in adult sizes.

The last race of Nike's 2026 After Dark Tour: a sold-out women's night 10K through the heart of Mumbai, with a two-hour cut-off.

Germany's long-delayed underground through-station replaces the Stuttgart terminus after two decades of construction. Estimated date.