Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Ferrero signed to buy Purely Elizabeth, the Boulder, Colorado granola, oatmeal and cereal brand whose sales more than doubled in two years, adding to its WK Kellogg breakfast business.

Asics raised its 2026 forecast to net sales of ¥1.05 trillion and operating profit of ¥195 billion after first-half sales rose 32.7% to ¥534.4 billion with record profits, led by SportStyle sales up 83%.

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HII's Newport News Shipbuilding completed acceptance sea trials of John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), the second Gerald R. Ford-class carrier, clearing the way for the Navy's preliminary acceptance after delivery slipped from 2025.

NVIDIA guarantees leases on about 4.25 GW of AI factory capacity at SB Energy's PORTS-Pike campus on the old Portsmouth uranium-enrichment plant in Pike County, Ohio, with OpenAI as tenant and NVIDIA's exposure capped at $105 billion.

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.

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Krispy Kreme marked Pokémon's 30th anniversary with a limited collection of six Pokémon doughnuts and a display-worthy acrylic cup of Gold Dots in five Pokémon designs, sold from 18 August to 13 September 2026.

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.

Gallup's 2026 Consumption Habits poll finds 54% of US adults drink for a second straight year, a record-low 13% say they sometimes drink too much, and 17% have had non-alcoholic beer, wine or spirits instead of a drink in the past year.

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.

Apple cut more than 200 jobs, about 100 in its Vision Products Group, largely shutting its Vision Pro gaming team and shrinking immersive video, and about 100 in Siri and software as it shifts to Siri AI.

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.

The FDA authorized Abbott's Libre Duo 10 Day, the first wearable to continuously track both glucose and ketones, which alerts people with diabetes aged 2 and older to rising ketones before diabetic ketoacidosis.

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.

Amazon signed a definitive agreement to buy DuckLabs, the bootstrapped Amsterdam team of more than 30 that builds the open-source DuckDB analytics database. DuckDB itself stays free under the MIT license and the independent DuckDB Foundation.

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.

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