Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Former Pfizer CFO David Denton became Nike's EVP and chief financial officer on 17 August 2026, with Matt Friend moving to an advisory role until he left on 4 September, when Denton also became interim corporate controller.

Kith and BMW's fourth collection, built around Inka Orange, brings an AVIREX leather jacket, leather travel goods, BMW X5 floor mats and a 1:18 die-cast 1972 BMW 3.0 CSi.

In a 20-year retrospective at the Grammy Museum's Clive Davis Theater, Taylor Swift talked songwriting with Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. and played a piano mashup of 'I Knew It, I Knew You', 'August' and 'All Too Well' on her Eras Tour piano.

A third northwest Louisiana data center campus, at Resilient Technology Park in Shreveport, lifts Amazon's planned investment from $12 billion to $18 billion and its expected jobs to up to 750 across three campuses.

Shares in China's best-known humanoid maker opened at 1,100 yuan on Shanghai's STAR Market, 629% above the 150.8-yuan offer price, valuing Unitree at about 445 billion yuan (US$66 billion). Some 9.8 million retail accounts had chased 9.7 million shares.

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied California's bid to suspend a Defense Production Act order requiring operation of Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Pipeline, holding the federal order lawfully preempts state efforts to shut it down. The court also shifted pipeline safety oversight under the consent decree from California's Office of the State Fire Marshal to the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

Waymo opened its sixth-generation Ojai robotaxi, built by Zeekr, to the general public in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix, with Denver, San Diego and Las Vegas to follow.

Supreme opens its Fall/Winter 2026 season in its stores and online, a range of more than 30 collaborations led by outerwear from Jeff Hamilton, Schott, Vanson and GORE-TEX.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum signed the Record of Decision and 2027-2028 Operating Guidelines for Lake Powell and Lake Mead, cutting Lower Basin deliveries by 1.25 million acre-feet a year for two years, 50,000 of them Nevada's, as both reservoirs hit record lows.

Gap and golf label Malbon's second collaboration - 35 rugby polos, pleated skorts, prep knits and golf gear from $28 to $250 - went on sale on gap.com at noon ET on 21 August 2026.

A 50% US duty on Canadian beer, wine, cider and spirits took effect after a three-day pause, in retaliation for provinces' boycott of American alcohol, and Canada suspended trade talks and vowed dollar-for-dollar countermeasures.

Fort Wayne, Marion and Indianapolis's Roudebush VA medical centres moved to the Federal EHR, taking VA to 11 hospitals live in 2026 and more than 617,000 veterans on the system.

At the French-Saudi Investment Roundtable in Paris, Aramco announced a drilling-equipment procurement agreement, an oil country tubular goods purchase deal and an Aramco Digital MoU on industrial AI and digital twins, worth a potential $3.7 billion combined. It came during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to France.

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.

High-end streaming preamplifier combining an 8-channel 32-bit DAC with versatile connectivity.

The live-action/animated hybrid Warner Bros. shelved for a tax write-off in 2023 finally reaches theaters via indie distributor Ketchup Entertainment, with Wile E. Coyote suing the Acme Corporation.