Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The MTA started the major construction stage of the 1.5-mile extension that carries the Q from 96th Street to Harlem-125th Street, with new stations at 106th, 116th and 125th Streets. A tunnel boring machine goes underground in early 2027 and trains are due in 2032.

Babcock & Wilcox is collaborating with TerraSpark on the TerraSpark Energy Campus near the Mount Storm power complex in Grant County, West Virginia, with an expected scope of four 400 MW supercritical boilers, full emissions controls and construction. The campus pairs a 1.6 GW coal plant with Mantel's carbon capture.

The council unanimously approved a budget closing a $118 million structural deficit, restoring some library and recreation-center hours and most arts funding while keeping the Flock license-plate reader contract.

PLDT shareholders elected 13 directors at the Grand Hyatt Manila, where Manny Pangilinan said the VITRO REIT IPO could raise $300-400 million from eight data centres.

Cosm opened a 70,000-square-foot, three-level venue built around an 87-foot 12K LED dome in Atlanta's Gulch, showing Game 4 of the NBA Finals on its first night. It is the first attraction finished inside Centennial Yards, the $5 billion, 50-acre redevelopment of the rail gulch between State Farm Arena and Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Oracle closed a record fiscal 2026 with $67.4 billion of revenue and a $638 billion backlog, but burned $23.7 billion of free cash and said it would raise about $40 billion more, sending the shares down 10% after hours.

As FIFA's official telecom sponsor, Verizon ran the connectivity for the 104-match tournament, adding 5G spectrum to lift capacity three to five times at every US host stadium; its network reportedly carried nearly 500 TB, 29.2 TB of it at the final.

At 36, Taylor Swift became the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, introduced by Steven Spielberg at the 2026 gala in New York alongside Alanis Morissette, Kenny Loggins and KISS's Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley.

Olivia Rodrigo's third album, made with Dan Nigro and featuring the Cure's Robert Smith, opened at No. 1 with 485,000 US units, her biggest week and the largest of 2026 for any soloist at the time.

The donghua Fanren Xiu Xian Zhuan Di Wu Ji (A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, fifth season) begins streaming, continuing Original Force and Wonder Cat Animation's adaptation of Wang Yu's xianxia novel.

Folarin Balogun scored twice as the co-hosts opened their 2026 World Cup with a 4-1 win over Paraguay before 70,492 in Inglewood.

Taylor Swift's Toy Story 5 single entered the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 1, giving her 15 No. 1s, third-most ever behind the Beatles and Mariah Carey, and Pixar its first chart-topper.

HPE's four-day Americas conference at the Venetian Expo, where Antonio Neri's keynote pitched the network as the foundation of the agentic enterprise and HPE launched Juniper switches for AI factories, agent governance with NVIDIA and eight new quantum partnerships.

Microsoft 365 Copilot's agentic mode for long-running, multi-tool tasks leaves its three-month Frontier preview for every Copilot customer worldwide, billed per task in Copilot Credits at $0.01 each on pay-as-you-go.

The Recording Academy announced five new categories for the 69th Grammys, led by Best Asian Pop Music Performance, plus a fourth Best New Artist submission and a new opt-in Ballot Plus.

The Air Force awarded both General Atomics (FQ-42) and Anduril (FQ-44) development and production contracts for its first Collaborative Combat Aircraft, at least 150 semi-autonomous wingman drones by the end of the decade, four months ahead of schedule.

President Trump signed a 14-point memorandum of understanding with Iran at the Palace of Versailles after the G7 summit, committing both sides to a final deal within 60 days, lifting the US naval blockade and reopening the Strait of Hormuz toll-free.

On 18 June 2026 the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the Recording Academy-backed NO FAKES Act, sending the bill on AI voice and likeness replicas to the full Senate.

Bruno Mars plays the first of three nights at the Stade de France outside Paris, opening the tour's European stadium run in oppressive heat with a two-hour set.

Pixar's fifth Toy Story film pits Woody, Buzz, and Jessie against Lilypad, a disruptive new tablet device competing for their kid Bonnie's attention.

The Obama Foundation's 19.3-acre campus in Jackson Park, built around a 225-foot museum tower, took its first visitors on Juneteenth, the day after a dedication ceremony at John Lewis Plaza. At roughly $850 million it is the most expensive presidential library yet built; ground was broken in September 2021 after years of lawsuits over the Jackson Park site.

Lord of Mysteries Specials premieres, a set of supplementary episodes to the Chinese donghua Lord of Mysteries that fill in scenes skipped over in the first season's broadcast.

PLDT's data centre arm VITRO filed its registration statement and REIT plan with the Philippine SEC for an IPO of up to PHP 24.2 billion, the country's first digital infrastructure REIT, backed by eight data centres of about 24 MW.

Lucid is cutting about 18% of its U.S. workforce, roughly 1,500 people including factory workers, ending the second shift at its Arizona plant; COO Marc Winterhoff is out as the role is eliminated.

Hvalur 9 harpooned two fin whales, Iceland's first commercial catch since 2023, after two seasons with no hunt, as the government prepared legislation to end whaling.

A 4-bay NAS with an 8-core Intel N305, 8GB RAM, dual 5GbE ports and TerraMaster's AI-native TOS 7 operating system.

Harvard, Tishman Speyer and Breakthrough Properties cut the ribbon on the first phase of the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston: two commercial laboratory buildings called OneMilestone, the 343-apartment Verra, the Atlas Hotel, Harvard's David Rubenstein Treehouse conference centre, 40,000 square feet of retail and more than two acres of public open space. It is the opening move on a 36-acre site, with a Phase B of labs, offices and housing still to be permitted.

The final episode of Classroom of the Elite's fourth season closed with the news that a fifth season of the Lerche-animated school thriller is on the way.

After a near-rejection, protests and arrests, councillors approved the $4.9 billion operating budget with $11.8 million of amendments, alongside a $4.4 billion five-year capital plan.