Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

TSMC's first nanosheet-transistor node, N2, entered volume production in the fourth quarter of 2025 as planned, starting at Fab 22 in Kaohsiung, with Fab 20 in Hsinchu as its second 2nm fab.

After the Supreme Court refused to let him deploy the Guard in Chicago, President Trump said on Truth Social that he was removing National Guard troops from Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, ending the LA deployment that began in June.

Jamestown's $500 million overhaul of the long-vacant One Times Square, home of the New Year's Eve ball drop, wrapped up with a new glass facade, museum and observation deck.

Former Tesco chief executive Sir Dave Lewis took over as Diageo's CEO on 1 January 2026 on a £1.5 million salary, ending Nik Jhangiani's six months as interim chief after Debra Crew's exit.

Tesla delivered 418,227 vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2025, down 16%, bringing full-year deliveries to 1,636,129, an 8.6% fall and its second annual decline; storage deployments reached a record 14.2 GWh.

The base subway, local bus and Access-A-Ride fare rose 10 cents to $3 and the express bus fare to $7.25, while OMNY's weekly fare cap of $35 became permanent in place of MetroCard unlimited passes.

A second season of The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows, about an exiled slum-born healer who opens an underground clinic, was announced during the GA FES 2026 livestream.

Ikoku Nikki premieres, a Shuka-animated drama adapting Akane Torikai's manga about a reclusive novelist who unexpectedly becomes guardian to her orphaned teenage niece.

A 243-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Oma, Aomori, sold for a record JPY 510.3 million at Toyosu Market's first auction of 2026, bought by Kiyomura, the owner of the Sushi Zanmai chain.

A second Jisoo-designed edition of Alo's Sunset Sneaker, in a neutral caramel suede she picked, went on sale for $275.

The new federal Dietary Guidelines tell Americans to 'consume less alcohol for better overall health' but no longer set the two-drinks-for-men, one-for-women daily limit that earlier editions carried.

Miami-Dade County and Royal Caribbean Group broke ground on a $345 million single-berth cruise terminal able to process about 7,000 passengers per ship call, with a multi-level garage and a ground-level intermodal hub, sized for Icon-class ships. Demolition of the terminal that stood on the site began in July 2025 and the new complex is slated for completion in late 2027.

Babcock & Wilcox chose Siemens Energy to supply the steam turbine generator sets for its one-gigawatt Applied Digital power project, under a limited notice to proceed it said would let it deliver power by the end of 2028.

MAPPA's third season of Jujutsu Kaisen begins airing, opening the Culling Game arc as Yuji Itadori, wary of returning to Jujutsu High, teams with Choso against cursed spirits unleashed by Noritoshi Kamo across Japan.

North Carolina Governor Josh Stein announced that Johnson & Johnson will build a second multibillion-dollar plant in Wilson, a drug product manufacturing facility for cancer and neurology medicines expected to create up to 500 jobs, beside the $2 billion biologics campus it is already building there.

Nike shut its decade-old SoHo flagship at 529 Broadway after IKEA owner Ingka Investments bought the building, ending a ten-year run in the roughly 55,000-square-foot property.

Alo hires Benedetta Petruzzo, managing director of Christian Dior Couture and earlier CEO of Miu Miu, into a new role running its business outside the US alongside co-CEOs Danny Harris and Marco DeGeorge.

The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority moved the Long Bridge Project into full construction, opening daytime work windows through the Washington, D.C. construction zone because the District's noise and vibration rules bar the work at night. A new two-track bridge beside the century-old Long Bridge will give a continuous four-track corridor between Arlington and L'Enfant Plaza, relieving the worst passenger-rail bottleneck on the East Coast.

Heineken's chief executive Dolf van den Brink said he would leave the job on 31 May 2026 after almost six years in charge and more than 28 years at the brewer, and the supervisory board began searching for a successor.

Saks Global Enterprises and roughly 113 affiliates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Southern District of Texas, seeking court approval for a $1 billion debtor-in-possession loan after missing a $100 million bond interest payment weeks earlier, a year after its debt-funded purchase of Neiman Marcus.

Slack turned its decade-old Slackbot into an AI agent that searches your conversations and files, drafts content, schedules meetings and takes actions, rolling out to Business+ and Enterprise+ plans.

Doga Kobo's third season of [Oshi No Ko] begins airing, continuing idol Aqua Hoshino's push into show business as he investigates who was behind his mother's murder.

Smart texted between Catanduanes and Metro Manila and loaded its website through Lynk Global's low-orbit satellites, its first direct-to-device satellite test, from a coastal village in Pandan.