Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Hershey told retailers it would raise prices on many chocolate products by a low double-digit percentage, blaming the unprecedented cost of cocoa rather than tariffs. Halloween packs were spared, and it said 75% of its candy would still cost under $4.

OpenAI said Oracle will develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate data center capacity in the US, taking Stargate past 5 GW under development and over 2 million chips alongside the Abilene site.

Cloud-provider lobby CISPE asked the EU General Court (Case T-503/25) to annul the Commission's 12 July 2023 clearance of Broadcom's acquisition of VMware (Case M.10806). It argues the Commission failed to assess the deal's effects on server virtualisation software, bundling and innovation.

American Eagle launched its Fall '25 campaign fronted by actress Sydney Sweeney, "Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans," spanning over 200 jeans styles, a limited-edition denim jacket and a charity collaboration, and igniting a national debate over its wordplay and imagery within days.

Wit Studio's My Melody & Kuromi begins streaming on Netflix, a Sanrio series following the two rival mascots as they open competing sweet shops in the town of Mariland.

Nestlé's first-half organic growth was 2.9%, almost all of it from pricing with real internal growth of just 0.2%, while reported sales fell 1.8% to CHF 44.2 billion on the strong franc. CEO Laurent Freixe kept 2025 guidance, including an underlying trading margin at or above 16.0%.

Four-time Olympic champion Léon Marchand, 23, joined Nike's global athlete roster, alongside fellow French Nike athletes Kylian Mbappé and Victor Wembanyama.

England drew 1-1 with world champions Spain in Basel and won the shoot-out 3-1, with Hannah Hampton saving two penalties and Chloe Kelly scoring the winner, to keep their European title.

Ruling on Ferrero's suit against a Maharashtra maker of fake 'Nutella Ferrero' spread, Justice Saurabh Banerjee declared NUTELLA a well-known mark, barred the counterfeiter for good and awarded Rs 30 lakh in damages.

A gunman with an M4 rifle killed four people, including off-duty NYPD officer Didarul Islam, and wounded a fifth inside the Midtown office tower at 345 Park Avenue before killing himself on the 33rd floor.

Alo's third shoe, a slim suede sneaker named for Sunset Boulevard with a recovery-foam insole, went on sale for $225 in black and sand.

Hershey's second-quarter net sales jumped 26% to $2.61 billion on Easter timing and early Halloween shipments, but it cut its 2025 earnings outlook to a 36-38% adjusted EPS decline after putting full-year tariff costs at $170-180 million.

Qualcomm's fiscal third quarter brought $10.37 billion of revenue, up 10%, and record automotive chip sales of $984 million, though the shares slid after hours.

Crews finished excavating the huge cavern in a Japanese mountain that will house the Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino observatory, a step toward the detector's planned start of observations.

Chef-owner Kari Shaughnessy opens a polished, seasonal restaurant in Carlton, a town of about 2,100 in Oregon's wine country.

List prices for Enterprise and Unlimited Editions of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Field Service and some Industries Clouds rose by an average of 6%, while Agentforce add-ons replaced the old Einstein ones.

A federal jury in Miami found Tesla 33% responsible for a 2019 Key Largo crash in which a Model S on Enhanced Autopilot killed Naibel Benavides Leon, leaving Tesla owing about $242.5 million including $200 million in punitive damages.

Germany's competition authority cleared Salesforce's acquisition of sole control of Informatica, finding that rivals such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and IBM already hold similar data assets.

At the court meeting and general meeting in London, Alphawave shareholders backed Qualcomm's $2.4 billion takeover scheme with 99.97% of the votes cast, and the UK cleared the deal on national-security grounds the same day.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1, an upgrade to Claude Opus 4 that raises its SWE-bench Verified coding score to 74.5% at the same price, on the day OpenAI released its first open-weight models since 2019.

Italy's government gave final approval to build a suspension bridge across the Strait of Messina, reviving a project that had stalled for over 50 years.

OpenAI's GPT-5 becomes ChatGPT's new flagship and default model, rolling out to Free, Plus, Pro and Team users.

A 39% US tariff on Swiss goods took effect under Executive Order 14308, hitting Switzerland's watch industry harder than almost any other sector; Swatch Group CEO Nick Hayek warned prices would have to rise, and FH figures later showed Swiss watch exports to the US falling 55.6% year-on-year by September.

A federal judge in Honolulu struck down the National Marine Fisheries Service letter that let commercial boats fish 50 to 200 nautical miles around Johnston Atoll, Jarvis and Wake islands, ruling the agency could not strip the protections without rulemaking.

Saks Global settled an exchange offer that raised roughly $600 million in new secured financing and swapped $2.2 billion of senior secured notes for new debt, after about 98% of eligible bondholders agreed to the terms, as the retailer worked to ease the strain from its Neiman Marcus acquisition.

Kendall Jenner returned to Alo for its fall 2025 campaign, shot at Amangiri in Utah, with a 10-piece Core capsule she picked herself - the first of four drops.

PLDT's first-half 2025 core income edged up to ₱17.6 billion on a ₱1.1 billion swing at Maya, while full-year capex guidance was cut to ₱63 billion from ₱68-73 billion and the board declared a ₱48 interim dividend.

WARN notices show Oracle laying off 161 people in Seattle plus staff at its Pleasanton, Redwood City and Santa Clara campuses, with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure teams hit.

Oracle Health's all-new electronic health record, built on OCI with AI agents in every workflow, became available to US ambulatory providers, with acute-care functionality planned for 2026.

Vans named SZA its first-ever Artistic Director in a multi-year partnership to reimagine its campaigns and co-create product collections, opening with a brand anthem film starring her go-to Knu Skool.

Philip Krajeck, of Rolf & Daughters and Folk, opens a calm New American bistro in a former Piggly Wiggly on Dickerson Pike.

Donald Trump hosted Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage for their first summit since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine; the talks ended without a ceasefire or any agreement being announced.

Hershey and Mondelez's two-way mash-up of America's No. 1 candy and No. 1 cookie opened for presale on The Hershey's Store, reaching stores nationwide in September; the cup became Reese's top innovation of 2025.

U.S. District Judge Rita Lin let California buyers of Tesla's Full Self-Driving package sue as a class, citing Tesla's inability to 'demonstrate a long-distance autonomous drive with any of its vehicles' and its claim that every car had the hardware for full self-driving.

Private equity investor Bill Chisholm took control of the 18-time NBA champions from Wyc Grousbeck's group, which bought the team in 2002 for $360 million. The deal valued the Celtics at more than $6.1 billion, a record for an American pro sports team, with full control due by 2028.

Vuori signed world No. 5 Jack Draper, Britain's top men's tennis player, as a global ambassador who would leave Nike, debut Vuori at the US Open and design a signature line.