Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

TSMC's 18th Open Innovation Platform Ecosystem Forum brings chip designers, EDA and IP partners and customers to the Santa Clara Convention Center on 23 September, opening a global series that ends in Israel in December.

Trump and Melania Trump met Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan at the foot of a 100-foot red carpet at Joint Base Andrews at 6:01pm on 23 September 2026, a welcome US presidents almost never give a visiting head of state. As Xi landed, Scott Bessent announced that the US-China trade truce was extended to January 10.

Justice Curtis Farber sentenced Harvey Weinstein to 15 years in state prison and five years of post-release supervision for the 2006 sexual assault of Miriam Haley, short of the 20 years the Manhattan DA sought.

Qualcomm agreed to acquire PickNik, the Boulder robotics software company behind the open-source MoveIt manipulation framework, promising to keep MoveIt open while tying it closely to Dragonwing robotics chips and Arduino boards.

The Monaco Yacht Show's 2026 edition, likely its 35th, opens at Port Hercule the week of 23 September.

Google releases two text-to-speech models that design new voices from a written description, clone a voice from a 30-second sample with the owner's recorded consent, and take line-by-line acting direction in more than 100 languages.

Moroccans voted from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday 23 September 2026 for all 395 seats in the House of Representatives, and turnout was 38.02%, down from 50.35% in 2021. It was the first national vote since the deadly youth-led Gen Z protests; results are due from 24 September.

Qualcomm launched Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 at Snapdragon Summit 2026, an audio-wearable platform with twice its predecessor's AI capability, micro-power Wi-Fi 6E for direct-to-cloud assistants and support for camera-equipped earbuds and audio glasses.

The District Court of Gelderland in Arnhem ruled that Lidl's sandals copy the copyrighted footbed design of Birkenstock's Arizona, Madrid, Gizeh, Boston and Florida and ordered Lidl to stop selling them in the Netherlands on pain of EUR 5,000 a day.

H&M Group's nine-month net sales reached SEK 161.6 billion as third-quarter operating profit rose 23% to SEK 6.0 billion, lifted by a one-time benefit from tariffs and goods imports, with CEO Daniel Ervér pointing to further sales potential ahead.

Qualcomm renewed its global patent licence agreement with Apple from 1 April 2027, keeping its cellular royalty stream from iPhones even as Apple moves to its own modems.

At 10:45am ET on 24 September the Senate votes on cloture on S.4668, the Cruz-Cantwell bill that would create a federal NIL right for college athletes and replace the patchwork of state laws, and on adopting the Cruz-Cantwell substitute. A 74-24 vote on 15 September began the bill's consideration.

OpenAI switches off 6 models and endpoints on 24 September 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: Videos API, sora-2, sora-2-pro, sora-2-2025-10-06, sora-2-2025-12-08, sora-2-pro-2025-10-06.

The Senate HELP Committee questions Dr. Heidi Overton, President Trump's pick for FDA commissioner, at 10:30 a.m. ET in 430 Dirksen. If confirmed, the White House domestic policy aide would take over an agency that has lost more than 3,000 staff in the past year.

479 military personnel from every branch, an Armed Forces Full Honor Cordon, a Rose Garden military review and a flyover by a B-2 and four F-22s: the formal welcome for Xi Jinping on the morning of 24 September 2026, his first White House arrival ceremony since 2015.

American Horror Story is an horror television anthology series. Each season is conceived as a self-contained miniseries, following a disparate set of characters and settings, and a storyline with its own beginning, middle, and end. While some actors appear for more than one year, they play completely different roles in each season. The premiere, "13": After a near-death experience, Ben provides hospice care for a mysterious client in an eerie penthouse. Season 13 starts on FX.

Taylor Swift expanded The Life of a Showgirl with four songs written in Sweden with Max Martin and Shellback to celebrate its record first week, led by the single 'Patient Zero' and 'Cleveland!', a nod to husband Travis Kelce's hometown.

Bad Bunny's first signature adidas shoe returns in a blue-heavy “Night Navy” colorway inspired by Puerto Rico's night sky, with indigo and navy suede over light blue nylon, for $160.

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective. Lifts off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B, Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand to Low Earth Orbit.

OpenAI switches off 4 models and endpoints on 28 September 2026; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, babbage-002, davinci-002, gpt-3.5-turbo-1106.

Samsung Thailand's schedule puts the Galaxy S25 series and the Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 on One UI 9 from 28 September 2026, alongside the Galaxy S26, which it moved to the same day. Samsung's global announcement gave no date for older phones.

The Simpsons is the longest running scripted show in US television history. It captures the adventures of Homer, Marge, Maggie, Bart and Lisa who are living in a fictional town called Springfield. The premiere, "The Children's Book Job": A British children's book author comes to Springfield to give a talk at Springfield Elementary School. Homer is tasked with picking her up from the airport, but things go bad from there. Season 38 starts on FOX.

Winners of Buffalo Trace Distillery's first Bottle Draw lottery have from 28 September to 11 October 2026 to buy the first uncut, unfiltered Elmer T. Lee single barrel bourbon, 124.8 to 138.6 proof, for $99.99 at the distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky.