Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Dick's Sporting Goods cut its 2026 forecast after Foot Locker's comparable sales fell 3.6%, blaming fewer and weaker sneaker launches and heavy discounting of legacy footwear; its shares fell 30.7% that day.

Qualcomm's Arduino opened worldwide pre-orders for the VENTUNO Q, a $299 board pairing a 40 TOPS Dragonwing IQ-8275 processor and 16 GB of memory with an STM32H5 microcontroller so robots and machines can run AI models and act on them offline.

Salesforce and Anthropic launched Claudeforce, starting with Salesforce in Claude, a plugin with 37 prebuilt sales skills, and made Claude the default model for Slack and Slackbot.

NVIDIA's revenue more than doubled from a year earlier to a record $96.2 billion for the quarter ended 26 July 2026, with Data Center at $89.0 billion, and it guided the third quarter to $108 billion.

High-end streaming amplifier delivering 70 watts per channel without a CD player.

Pernod Ricard's sales fell 3.9% organically to €9.4 billion in the year to June 2026 as the US dropped 14% and China 19%, with profit from recurring operations down 5.2% to €2.4 billion and India overtaking China as its No. 2 market.

Oliver County's planning and zoning board held its first hearings on Base Electron's 1,200 MW gas-fired Missouri Bend Energy Center, the plant Babcock & Wilcox is to build for Applied Digital near Center, North Dakota, and tabled all four applications for more information and landowner outreach.

Kith's Fall 2026 collection arrives with its first capsule with Japanese label Needles and a 30-team NFL sueded velour shirt capsule, alongside garment-washed outerwear and vintage leather jackets.

Purina's first factory built from the ground up since 1975, a 1.3-million-square-foot plant making Purina Pro Plan, Purina ONE and Dog Chow, officially opened east of Cincinnati. It is the largest investment Nestlé has made in a Purina plant and employs more than 430 people, heading for 500.

Lilly agrees to buy Merida Biosciences, whose Phase 1 MER511 is built to destroy the autoantibodies behind Graves' disease and thyroid eye disease, for up to $2.875 billion in cash.

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 - the same model behind different safeguards - and cuts cache reads by 75%, making typical workloads about 25% cheaper to run than Fable 5.

Shein's shares fell 9% in their Hong Kong Stock Exchange trading debut on 1 September 2026, after an IPO that raised about HK$13.60 billion ($1.74 billion) at HK$48.56 a share and valued the fast-fashion retailer at roughly $26.5 billion. That is close to a quarter of the $100 billion valuation Shein commanded in a 2022 private funding round.