Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

PLDT signed a share purchase agreement with Meralco's Paragon Vertical for the 65.1% of fibre carrier Radius Telecoms it does not own, a PHP 2.935 billion deal that will make Radius a wholly owned unit once the competition and telecom regulators approve.

A new 10-year deal between Las Vegas Grand Prix, Inc., Clark County and the LVCVA keeps the Saturday-night Strip race on the Formula 1 calendar through 2037.

Mattel's He-Man franchise gets a live-action feature, with Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Adam and Jared Leto as Skeletor, directed by Travis Knight.

The quiet supersonic demonstrator reached Mach 1.1 and 43,400 feet on an 81-minute flight from Edwards Air Force Base, the first time it exceeded the speed of sound. A NASA F-15 chase plane flew alongside, its own booms drowning out anything the X-59 made.

The VA switched the Cincinnati, Chillicothe, Dayton and Fort Thomas medical centres to the Federal EHR, its second 2026 wave, serving more than 107,000 veterans.

The 7 June 2026 deadline to write the Pay Transparency Directive into national law passed with only Italy, Slovakia and Malta (and, by some counts, Lithuania) done; the Netherlands, Sweden, Czechia and Denmark said they would apply it from 1 January 2027.

A magnitude 7.8 quake off southern Mindanao cut power to PLDT and Smart sites around General Santos; by 10 June Smart had service back in 22 of 24 affected provinces, with Starlink links filling gaps.

Amtrak and its newly chosen builders showed the public a first look at the redesigned Penn Station concourse, the latest step in a federal takeover of the long-delayed rebuild.

Connor Daniel's 919.9-pound blue marlin, the heaviest ever weighed at the Big Rock, won the 68th tournament in Morehead City for Marlin Fever and a record $6,513,188 of a $9.04 million purse.

The council unanimously approved a budget closing a $118 million structural deficit, restoring some library and recreation-center hours and most arts funding while keeping the Flock license-plate reader contract.

A financing platform for more than 20 GW of Broadcom XPU compute for frontier AI labs through 2028, opening with a $35 billion tranche led by Apollo with Blackstone to fund Anthropic's 1 GW-plus expansion at Fluidstack sites.

The Competition Appeal Tribunal approved a settlement that ends Which?'s GBP 480 million class action against Qualcomm with no payment, finding the claim no longer had a realistic prospect of success.

Oracle closed a record fiscal 2026 with $67.4 billion of revenue and a $638 billion backlog, but burned $23.7 billion of free cash and said it would raise about $40 billion more, sending the shares down 10% after hours.

At 36, Taylor Swift became the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, introduced by Steven Spielberg at the 2026 gala in New York alongside Alanis Morissette, Kenny Loggins and KISS's Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley.

Proclamation 11035 removed monument-based bans on commercial fishing in parts of Papahānaumokuākea beyond 50 nautical miles, the Islands Unit of the Mariana Trench monument and waters 12 to 50 nautical miles around Rose Atoll, for US-flagged vessels.

Olivia Rodrigo's third album, made with Dan Nigro and featuring the Cure's Robert Smith, opened at No. 1 with 485,000 US units, her biggest week and the largest of 2026 for any soloist at the time.

The donghua Fanren Xiu Xian Zhuan Di Wu Ji (A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, fifth season) begins streaming, continuing Original Force and Wonder Cat Animation's adaptation of Wang Yu's xianxia novel.

Folarin Balogun scored twice as the co-hosts opened their 2026 World Cup with a 4-1 win over Paraguay before 70,492 in Inglewood.

The Grade II-listed west London exhibition halls reopened as a mixed-use district with rooftop restaurants, offices, two hotels and the 3,800-capacity British Airways ARC music venue, which launched the following night. The GBP 1.3 billion transformation, designed by Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC, opens the 14-acre site to the public for the first time in 140 years; the 1,575-seat British Airways Theatre follows in 2027.

HPE's four-day Americas conference at the Venetian Expo, where Antonio Neri's keynote pitched the network as the foundation of the agentic enterprise and HPE launched Juniper switches for AI factories, agent governance with NVIDIA and eight new quantum partnerships.

Verizon scrapped activation and upgrade fees, launched a Verizon Dollars and Verizon Shine loyalty program for every customer, and introduced the $45 Simplicity plan with unlimited 5G Ultra Wideband for all.

Robinhood cut about 10% of its full-time employees, roughly 290 people, to flatten management layers, booking about $28 million in charges.

DOE's Lux AI cluster, built by HPE with more than 4,000 AMD MI355X GPUs, was delivered to ORNL's leadership computing facility, starting installation of the first dedicated AI system for the Genesis Mission.

The Air Force awarded both General Atomics (FQ-42) and Anduril (FQ-44) development and production contracts for its first Collaborative Combat Aircraft, at least 150 semi-autonomous wingman drones by the end of the decade, four months ahead of schedule.

Bruno Mars plays the first of three nights at the Stade de France outside Paris, opening the tour's European stadium run in oppressive heat with a two-hour set.

Pixar's fifth Toy Story film pits Woody, Buzz, and Jessie against Lilypad, a disruptive new tablet device competing for their kid Bonnie's attention.

The Obama Foundation's 19.3-acre campus in Jackson Park, built around a 225-foot museum tower, took its first visitors on Juneteenth, the day after a dedication ceremony at John Lewis Plaza. At roughly $850 million it is the most expensive presidential library yet built; ground was broken in September 2021 after years of lawsuits over the Jackson Park site.

Lord of Mysteries Specials premieres, a set of supplementary episodes to the Chinese donghua Lord of Mysteries that fill in scenes skipped over in the first season's broadcast.

Yien Animation's Beyond Time's Gaze 2 begins release, the second season of the Chinese web-novel adaptation Guangyin Zhi Wai, continuing its cast's story as an ongoing original net animation.

Lucid is cutting about 18% of its U.S. workforce, roughly 1,500 people including factory workers, ending the second shift at its Arizona plant; COO Marc Winterhoff is out as the role is eliminated.

Hvalur 9 harpooned two fin whales, Iceland's first commercial catch since 2023, after two seasons with no hunt, as the government prepared legislation to end whaling.

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