Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

PLDT said faulty controls over structured hedge accounting were a material weakness at end-2025, and its auditor SGV withdrew its opinions on the 2025 statements and controls in the US Form 20-F, which PLDT will amend after an Audit Committee review.

HYBE and Geffen's global girl group Katseye topped the Billboard 200 with their third EP, 170,000 units in its first week, the biggest week for an all-woman group since Billboard began counting units in 2014.

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%.

Open-ear clip-on wireless earbuds with a smart dial built into the charging case.

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.

All 30 MLB owners approved the transfer of the Padres to José E. Feliciano and Kwanza Jones, with Feliciano as control person, ending the Seidler family's ownership.

Amer Sports grew second-quarter revenue 32% to $1,633 million, with Technical Apparel up 32% led by Arc'teryx, Outdoor Performance up 37% on Salomon Softgoods, and Ball & Racquet up 24% on Wilson Tennis 360.

The world's largest salmon farmer reported record second-quarter revenue of EUR 1.6 billion and operational EBIT of EUR 231 million, up 23%, on a record 150,000 tonnes of salmon harvested.

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.

Limited-edition handheld console finished in glossy red and 24-karat gold.

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.

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.

Vuori's first Tampa store, a 5,618 sq ft space on the second floor of International Plaza, was set to open on 21 August 2026 next to TravisMathew.

The second edition brought 2,056 robots from 666 teams to the National Speed Skating Oval for 51 events, from football and tug of war to firefighting drills. Tiangong Ultra took the humanoid 100 m to 8.86 seconds - faster than Usain Bolt's human record.

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.

USDA reopened the Douglas, AZ port to cattle imports from Mexico on 24 August 2026, the first step in a phased reopening of southern ports, under a joint US-Mexico screwworm protocol; Santa Teresa and Columbus, NM are considered next.

Limited-edition turntable with a Bar & Shield-shaped plinth and hand-polished tonearm.

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.