Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Aldi Nord's 42,800-square-metre distribution centre near Lehrte-Aligse began supplying 77 stores in Lower Saxony, completing the modernisation of its German logistics network.

Victoria's Secret & Co. named Hillary Super, previously CEO of Savage X Fenty, as its chief executive officer, tasking her with reviving the lingerie retailer's core brand and its Pink and Adore Me businesses.

Marriott's plan for the world's tallest modular hotel in Manhattan's NoMad district collapsed after years of stalled construction, and the site was sold for a residential condo tower instead.

Every US mammography facility must now tell patients in writing whether their breast tissue is dense, which can hide cancers on a mammogram, under the FDA's amended Mammography Quality Standards Act rule.

A section of the 1971-built Carola Bridge in Dresden, Germany collapsed into the Elbe overnight with no warning, minutes after the last tram had crossed it.

OpenAI releases o1-preview and o1-mini, the first of a new series of models that spend more time thinking before they respond.

After bargaining that began in March 2023 and strikes that delayed the cane crush, 55% of voting Wilmar Sugar and Renewables employees accepted a three-year deal with a A$2,500 bonus and 16% in pay rises.

Malaysia formally launched the Forest City Special Financial Zone, a tax-incentive push aimed at reviving the stalled $100 billion artificial-island city project in the Johor Strait.

Given the Movie: To the Sea, the third feature film in Lerche's Given series, opens in Japanese theaters, picking the story back up as singer Mafuyu Sato begins to doubt his place fronting the band Given.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 707, the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024, making California the first US state to require clothing and textile makers to fund the collection, repair and recycling of their products.

The second season of the reincarnation fantasy premieres from studio MOTHER in the CBC/TBS Agaru Anime block, continuing Ars Louvent's rise as he leads his territory through the empire's widening war.

Alessandro Michele staged his debut Valentino runway show at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, a maximalist Spring/Summer 2025 ready-to-wear collection blending Gucci-era exuberance with Valentino's own archive, including its signature red gowns reworked with feathers and lingerie layering.

Chef Fátima Juárez runs a molino and antojitos counter in South Los Angeles, milling heirloom Mexican corn into masa every day.

Ferrero North America opened a 169,000 sq ft Kinder Bueno factory on its Bloomington, Illinois campus, a $214 million investment creating about 200 jobs and making Kinder Bueno in the US for the first time.

Claudia Sheinbaum took the oath of office before Congress at the Palacio Legislativo de San Lázaro on 1 October 2024, becoming Mexico's first woman president for the 2024-2030 term.

Sharefun Studio's Scissor Seven Season 5 begins streaming, sending hitman-turned-hairdresser Seven back to Xuanwu Country to confront the fragmented memories at the center of the series' overarching mystery.

EssilorLuxottica completed its $1.5 billion cash acquisition of streetwear brand Supreme from VF Corporation, a deal first agreed in July 2024 as VF Corp moved to pay down debt by shedding non-core brands.

OpenAI trains GPT-4o to work in canvas, a side-by-side writing and coding surface in ChatGPT, as an early beta.

Denver, Aurora and RTD are rebuilding East Colfax Avenue for the region's first center-running bus rapid transit line, an 8.6-mile, $280 million project that broke ground on 4 October 2024 and is due to finish construction at the end of 2027.

Madhouse's adaptation of Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite begins airing, a historical drama following generations of scholars risking their lives to prove heliocentrism in a fictionalized 15th-century Europe hostile to the idea.

A second TV season of Gushing over Magical Girls, the anime of Akihiro Ononaka's comedy manga about a girl who is drafted as a villain and discovers she enjoys tormenting the heroines she idolises, was announced at a fan event.

McLaren unveiled the W1 at its Woking headquarters, a twin-turbo V8 hybrid hypercar producing 1,258 hp, doing 0-100 km/h in 2.7 seconds and reaching 350 km/h, limited to 399 units at about $2.1 million each.

Aircraft-maintenance and storage specialist Tarmac Aerosave opened its fourth Airbus A380-capable hangar at Teruel Airport, Europe's largest aircraft boneyard. The 15 million euro building, the world's largest metal-textile hangar, can house one A380 or four narrow-body jets at once.

Natsume's Book of Friends Season 7 begins broadcast, continuing Studio Shuka's adaptation of Yuki Midorikawa's supernatural slice-of-life manga about a boy who can see spirits and works to return the names his grandmother once collected.

Elon Musk showed the two-seat Cybercab, a robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals, and a 20-passenger Robovan at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, promising Cybercab production before 2027 at under $30,000.

China made importers of European brandy, overwhelmingly French cognac, post deposits of 30.6% to 39% from 11 October 2024, days after the EU voted for tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.

The Bering Sea snow crab fishery reopened at noon on 15 October 2024 with a 4.72-million-pound catch limit, its first season since the stock collapsed and the fishery was shut in 2022.

Alo Yoga signed BTS singer Jin as a global ambassador ahead of its first South Korean flagship in Seoul's Dosan Park; his announcement post was valued at $3.6 million in media exposure within a day.

One Piece Fan Letter premieres, a one-off Toei Animation special adapting a chapter of the One Piece novel Mugiwara Stories to mark the 25th anniversary of the One Piece anime, set as the Straw Hats reunite on the Sabaody Archipelago.

The WNBA players' union used its option to end the 2020 labor deal two years early, so the contract would expire after the 2025 season and force talks on higher salaries and revenue sharing.

Anthropic releases an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet that lifts SWE-bench Verified from 33.4% to 49.0% and is the first frontier model to offer computer use, moving a cursor and typing like a person, in public beta.

US District Judge Jennifer Rochon granted the FTC a preliminary injunction halting Tapestry's proposed acquisition of Capri Holdings, ruling that the accessible-luxury handbag rivals were close competitors whose merger would hurt consumers.

Vinted completed a €340 million secondary share sale led by private-equity firm TPG, valuing the Lithuanian resale marketplace at €5 billion and letting employees and early investors cash out stock.

Sparkly Key Animation's Mu Shen Ji begins streaming, a Chinese donghua following Qin Mu, a young man raised by nine mysterious elders in the remote village of Can Lao, as he uncovers the dangers of the forsaken land of Da Xu.

Texas kicked off construction on its $13 billion North Houston Highway Improvement Project, a decades-long rebuild of one of America's deadliest interstates.

Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ completed a deal to buy newly issued Sotheby's shares alongside fresh capital from majority owner Patrick Drahi, together about $1 billion, mostly used to cut the auction house's debt.

The Recording Academy and Disney announced a 10-year global deal to simulcast the Grammys on ABC, Hulu and Disney+ from 2027 through 2036, ending the show's run on CBS.

Vuori's first international flagship, a two-floor store of just under 4,000 sq ft at 83-85 Regent Street, opened on 31 October 2024 in the former Fabletics space.

TxDOT started the rebuild of eight miles of I-35 through central Austin, which lowers the mainlanes, removes the 1970s upper decks and adds two non-tolled high-occupancy-vehicle managed lanes in each direction from US 290 East to SH 71/Ben White Boulevard. First work was the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard bridge; the corridor is not finished until 2033.

Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Haiku on its API, Amazon Bedrock and Vertex AI, a text-only small model that it says beats Claude 3 Opus on many benchmarks, at $1 per million input tokens, four times Claude 3 Haiku's price.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o mini for ChatGPT's Free, Plus and Team users and for logged-out users.