Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Right after the Stairway to Adulthood TV special aired, the Kaguya-sama: Love Is War anime announced a theatrical finale built on a new original story by creator Aka Akasaka.

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.

Co-chefs Sachi Statz and Victor Santos, from the family's Tinta y Café, open a Cuban-French bistro in Miami's Little Havana.

One of the world's largest gas plants began processing associated gas from the offshore Marjan and Zuluf fields, heading for 2.6 billion cubic feet a day of raw gas capacity in 2026, as the Marjan crude increment came on stream.

Iraq's Al Faw Grand Port, a deep-water container port on its only stretch of coastline, is aiming to commission its first phase, positioning the country as a new global shipping hub.

A small Filipino tasting-menu restaurant on Nob Hill, with chef Patrick Gabon in an open kitchen and Celine Wuu running wine and the room.

A two-judge Ninth Circuit panel turned down an emergency appeal by the Environmental Defense Center and Center for Biological Diversity seeking to block the federal restart permit granted to Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, sending the company's stock surging. The terse December 31 order is not the end: the court put the case on an expedited schedule, with its first deadline on January 26.

Suntory Global Spirits halted distillation at the main James B. Beam distillery in Clermont, Kentucky, for all of 2026 amid a bourbon glut, keeping bottling, warehousing and the visitor centre open.

Senator Bernie Sanders administered the public oath on the steps of City Hall, hours after Attorney General Letitia James swore Mamdani in at 12:01 a.m. in the disused City Hall subway station. He is the city's first Muslim mayor and the first of South Asian descent.

Group board member Nicolás de Lope took over as CEO of Aldi Nord from Torsten Hufnagel, who left after 28 years for personal reasons; Germany chief Felix Rottmann moved up to the group board.

From January 2026 Aldi's Polish store staff earn PLN 5,700 to 6,450 gross a month and store managers up to PLN 9,350, with every employee also getting PLN 400 a month on a prepaid card for shopping at Aldi.

Nvidia projected 20 million units of Blackwell and Rubin generation GPUs, against 4 million of the prior Hopper generation, alongside about $500 billion in combined sales.

After tracing the toxin cereulide to arachidonic acid (ARA) oil from a global supplier, Nestlé began recalling SMA, BEBA, NAN, Alfamino and Guigoz batches country by country from 5 January 2026, in more than 60 countries.

LVCVA and CES leaders cut the ribbon on the rebuilt Central Hall a day before CES 2026, completing a $600 million makeover that brings the three oldest halls up to the standard of the 2021 West Hall and links them under one roof.

A federal magistrate judge combined 33 class actions over the Cl0p theft of Oracle E-Business Suite data into In re Oracle Corporation Data Breach Litigation.

At CES 2026 Qualcomm added the Snapdragon X2 Plus to its PC line, a 3 nm chip with up to 10 Oryon cores and an 80 TOPS NPU that brings X2-series performance and multi-day battery life to lower-priced Copilot+ laptops from the first half of 2026.

Boston Dynamics revealed the product version of its fully electric Atlas humanoid at Hyundai's CES media day and began building it at its Boston headquarters immediately. Every 2026 Atlas is already committed, with fleets going to Hyundai's Robotics Metaplant Application Center and to Google DeepMind.

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.