Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

Nevadans approved Question 6 with 64.36% of the vote, the first of two votes needed to write a right to abortion until fetal viability into the state constitution.

Missouri voters approved Amendment 3 by 1,538,659 votes to 1,443,022, writing a right to reproductive freedom, including abortion up to fetal viability, into the state constitution and overturning the state's near-total ban.

MAPPA recuts the Final Chapters specials into a single theatrical feature, Attack on Titan: The Last Attack, adding new footage to close out the anime adaptation of Hajime Isayama's manga on the big screen.

An $825 million secondary tender offer led by General Atlantic and Stripes valued Vuori at $5.5 billion, up from $4 billion in 2021, with General Atlantic's Andrew Ferrer joining the board.

Tapestry and Capri Holdings scrapped their planned merger after the FTC's court win, with Tapestry agreeing to reimburse Capri $45.1 million in expenses rather than keep fighting past the deal's outside date.

Austria's motorway operator ASFINAG opened the new Danube Valley Bridge and its connecting tunnels in Linz, the world's longest earth-anchored suspension bridge, completing the first phase of the A26 Westring motorway.

About 700 Culinary Local 226 and Bartenders Local 165 workers walked out of the off-Strip Virgin Hotels Las Vegas in the union's first open-ended strike in over 22 years, holding 24/7 picket lines until members ratified a five-year contract on 22 January 2025.

René Magritte's 1954 L'Empire Des Lumières, from the estate of interior designer Mica Ertegun, sold for $121.2 million at Christie's in New York, a record for the artist and for Surrealist art at auction, reportedly to billionaire Ken Griffin.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o for all paid ChatGPT tiers with more natural, audience-aware writing and deeper work with uploaded files.

Terminal 3 broke ground south of the existing terminals as the centrepiece of Pudong's phase-IV expansion, designed for 50 million passenger trips a year. When the programme is finished the airport will have three terminals, one satellite terminal and four runways, with terminal floor space above 1.7 million square metres.

Greenland's capital opened its new international airport on November 28, 2024, ending Nuuk's dependence on connecting flights for long-haul travel.

Hong Kong International Airport's HK$141.5BN Three-Runway System expansion reached full three-runway operation, capping an eight-year project to add capacity on reclaimed land.

Greece's Thessaloniki Metro Line 1 opened to the public, a driverless 9.6km line whose stations doubled as archaeological digs after more than 300,000 ancient artefacts were uncovered during construction.

The third season of Wan Jie Du Zun, a Chinese cultivation-fantasy donghua from Ruo Hong Culture that continues its web-novel adaptation with a planned 224-episode run. The story follows its protagonist's climb through a world of competing cultivation sects and hidden immortal realms, building directly on the events of the first two seasons.

LVMH's Cheval Blanc opened its sixth hotel, a 52-villa resort curled around Anse Intendance beach on Mahé island, designed by architect Jean-Michel Gathy with a spa created with Guerlain.

Monaco inaugurated Mareterra, a $2 billion, six-hectare land reclamation district built into the Mediterranean to ease the tiny principality's chronic space crisis.

UNESCO inscribed Japan's traditional knowledge and skills of sake-making with koji mold on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at the committee's 19th session in Asunción, Paraguay.

Shenman Entertainment streams Cang Yuan Tu 2, continuing the Chinese action-fantasy ONA's story directly from where its first season left off.

Notre-Dame Cathedral reopened to worshippers and visitors on December 7, 2024, five and a half years after a fire gutted its roof and spire.