Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Michele Buck, Hershey's chairman and CEO, a 20-year Hershey veteran who took the top job in 2017, told the board she would retire by June 30, 2026. A board committee began an external and internal search for her successor.

OpenAI rolls out a beta of tasks, letting GPT-4o in ChatGPT carry out one-time reminders and recurring actions at a future time.

Bumble said founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd would take back the chief executive job in mid-March 2025, succeeding former Slack CEO Lidiane Jones, who resigned for personal reasons.

The fourth season of the Chinese donghua Fanren Xiu Xian Zhuan begins streaming, continuing Original Force and Wonder Cat Animation's adaptation of the cultivation web novel behind it.

A wind-driven wildfire in the Otay Mountain Wilderness near the Mexican border forced evacuations around Otay Lakes Road and threatened the mountain’s communications site before crews contained it a week later.

An 85-acre integrated food plant at Gohana in Sonipat, able to make 627,000 tonnes a year of rice, flour and edible oils, begins operating with its first 100-tonne rice dispatch.

SK8 the Infinity EXTRA PART is an original-video omnibus that reunites the SK8 the Infinity cast for four standalone slice-of-life stories following the main TV series and film.

San Diego Wave sold the U.S. centre-back to Chelsea for a world-record fee reported at about $1.1 million, surpassing Bay FC's roughly $860,000 for Racheal Kundananji in 2024.

Ne Zha 2 (Nezha Zhi Mo Tong Nao Hai) opens in Chinese theaters over the Lunar New Year, a Coco Cartoon-animated sequel following the young deities Ne Zha and Ao Bing as they seek to restore their dissolving bodies.

Tesla reported fourth-quarter 2024 revenue of $25.7 billion and adjusted EPS of $0.73, both below estimates, and said it expected its vehicle business to return to growth in 2025 and Robotaxi to begin launching in parts of the U.S.

The sixth season of the Chinese donghua Xingchen Bian continues online, following young hero Qin Yu as he pursues cultivation and revenge across a world of rival sects.

OpenAI releases o3-mini, a cost-efficient reasoning model for coding, math and science with three adjustable reasoning efforts.

CAL FIRE declared the Eaton Fire 100% contained on 31 January 2025 at 14,021 acres, after it had destroyed 9,419 structures in Altadena and Pasadena and killed 19 people.

LVMH's former chief financial officer Jean-Jacques Guiony became President and CEO of Moët Hennessy, the group's wines-and-spirits division, succeeding Philippe Schaus after 21 years with the group.

UK duty on bottled and canned beer, cider, wine and spirits rises with RPI inflation while draught drinks under 8.5% ABV get a 1.7% cut, taking a penny off the duty on an average pint, and the temporary wine easement ends.

The duet wins Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 67th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, over Gracie Abrams and Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Post Malone, and others; it was also up for Song of the Year.

China's Ministry of Commerce added Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger parent PVH Corp. to its Unreliable Entity List, accusing the company of boycotting Xinjiang cotton and "cutting normal transactions with Chinese enterprises," following a probe opened in September 2024.

Jin's first campaign as Alo's global ambassador, built around self-love as the root of wellness, went live months after he signed.

Hershey closed 2024 with fourth-quarter net sales up 8.7% to $2.89 billion and adjusted EPS up 33% to $2.69, then warned that surging cocoa prices would cut 2025 adjusted earnings per share by about a third on sales growth of at least 2%.

Massachusetts' largest private employer began cutting management and administrative jobs to close a $250 million budget gap, about 1,500 positions across two rounds.

Tesla's first energy-storage factory outside the US began building Megapacks in Shanghai's Lingang area, eight months after construction started, with capacity for 10,000 units or about 40 GWh a year.

Goldman Sachs ended its policy of taking companies public in the US and Western Europe only if they had at least two diverse board members, one of them a woman, citing legal developments after Nasdaq's diversity rule was struck down.

Red Dog Culture House releases Tian Guan Ci Fu Duanpian, a series of short bonus episodes set within the Tian Guan Ci Fu (Heaven Official's Blessing) universe, adapted from Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel.

Ferrero's turnover rose 8.9% to EUR 18.4 billion in the year to 31 August 2024, the year Nutella Ice Cream launched; capital investment grew 18% to EUR 958 million.

A Russian drone struck Chernobyl's €2BN New Safe Confinement shelter, tearing a hole in the roof and starting a fire that burned for weeks.

A second season of CloverWorks' Bocchi the Rock!, adapting Aki Hamaji's four-panel manga about a painfully shy guitarist, is announced at a Kessoku Band live event.

J.C.Staff's A Certain Scientific Railgun is getting a fourth season, with director Tatsuyuki Nagai and the main voice cast returning to Mikoto Misaka's Academy City five years after Railgun T.

At Mar-a-Lago, President Trump signs Executive Order 14216, directing his Domestic Policy Council to propose within 90 days ways to protect IVF access and sharply cut its out-of-pocket and health plan costs.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy withdrew the Federal Highway Administration's approval of Manhattan's $9 congestion toll in a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul; the MTA sued in federal court the same afternoon.

Hershey sold $2 billion of bonds in four $500 million tranches due 2028 to 2035 at coupons of 4.55% to 5.10%, to repay $600 million of notes maturing in 2025 and some commercial paper.

Core net profit fell 26% to US$1.16 billion, with weaker sugar merchandising and no repeat of the 2023 Cosumar sale gain; the total dividend was cut to S$0.16.

Mayor Karen Bass removed Kristin Crowley as Los Angeles fire chief, saying 1,000 firefighters were sent home the morning the fires broke out and that Crowley refused to write an after-action report.

Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the first hybrid reasoning model, which answers instantly or thinks step by step for as long as the user allows, and launches the Claude Code terminal agent beside it.

DAMAC International broke ground on The Delmore, a Zaha Hadid Architects-designed condo tower replacing the collapsed Champlain Towers South, with far fewer, far pricier units than before.

OpenAI releases a research preview of GPT-4.5, its largest and best model for chat, scaling up unsupervised learning rather than reasoning.

PLDT's 2024 telco core income rose 2% to ₱35.1 billion, in line with guidance, and reported net income jumped 21% to ₱32.3 billion; the board declared a ₱47 final dividend for ₱97 a share in all, a 60% payout.

Hong Kong opened Kai Tak Sports Park, a 50,000-seat stadium and leisure complex built on the runway of the old Kai Tak Airport, closed since 1998.

San Diego FC drew 0-0 with St. Louis CITY SC in its first-ever home match, watched by 34,506 fans, the largest crowd for a sporting event in Snapdragon Stadium's history.

Ontario's liquor board removed more than 3,600 US-made products from 35 states, nearly $1 billion a year in sales, as retaliation for Trump's tariffs on Canada, and most other provinces followed.

Adani Wilmar signs a definitive agreement for G.D. Foods, maker of Tops ketchup, sauces and pickles, taking 80% first at an enterprise value of Rs 603 crore and the rest over three years.

On March 5, 2025, a New York Air National Guard LC-130H Skibird touched down on freshwater ice at Parsons Lake, Canada, a first for the unit’s ski-equipped Hercules fleet.

Los Angeles County sued SCE and Edison International alleging their equipment started the Eaton Fire, seeking at least hundreds of millions of dollars for destroyed parks, roads, cleanup and lost taxes.

Eric Pham opens his first sit-down restaurant in St. Anthony Park, a tribute to his mother Khue Pham of Minneapolis's Quang, with most mains at $21 or less.

Sarah Burton presented her debut Givenchy collection at the house's historic Avenue George V salon in Paris, a Fall/Winter 2025 womenswear show built around rediscovered pattern pieces from founder Hubert de Givenchy's own archive.

Boohoo Group said it would go forward as Debenhams Group with immediate effect, pivoting to a marketplace model after concluding that its revived Debenhams brand, bought out of administration in 2021, had become the majority contributor to the group's profitability.

Kering and Gucci announce that Demna, Balenciaga's artistic director since 2015, will become Gucci's new Artistic Director starting early July 2025, succeeding Sabato De Sarno, whose collaboration with the house ended in February.