Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Verizon closed its $20 billion purchase of Frontier Communications, making it a wholly owned subsidiary and extending Verizon's fiber reach to almost 30 million passings across 31 states and DC.

The lead single from The Romantic enters the Hot 100 at No. 1, Bruno Mars' 10th chart-topper and the first of his career to debut at the summit.

Cosmic Princess Kaguya!, a Studio Colorido and Studio Chromato reimagining of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, streams on Netflix, blending Japan's oldest folktale with music and modern animation.

The WorldLeaks extortion gang listed Nike on its leak site on 22 January 2026 and then dumped about 1.4TB of what it said were 188,347 internal Nike design and manufacturing files; Nike said only that it was investigating a potential cybersecurity incident.

Christophe Gans returns to the Silent Hill film series with a reboot loosely based on the video game Silent Hill 2, starring Jeremy Irvine and Hannah Emily Anderson.

Negotiators from the US, Ukraine and Russia met together for the first time since the full-scale invasion, in two days of UAE-hosted talks in Abu Dhabi that ended without agreement as Russia kept demanding the rest of Donetsk.

A weather power outage at a primary US data centre operated by Oracle hit tens of thousands of servers, leaving TikTok's US app buggy for a week just after the joint venture took over.

Aramco priced $4 billion of US dollar bonds in four tranches, from three to 30 years at coupons of 4% to 6%, drawing about $21 billion of orders. It was the company's first bond sale of 2026, listed in London.

Nike filed WARN notices on 26 January 2026 for 583 layoffs at two Memphis distribution centres and 193 in Byhalia, Mississippi, effective 3 April, part of 775 job cuts it tied to more automation.

LVMH's full-year 2025 revenue fell 5% on a reported basis to €80.8 billion, with organic revenue down 1%, as profit from recurring operations came to €17.8 billion and net profit held at €10.9 billion.

The rebuild of the north end of SEA's main terminal added the airport's first at-scale automated bag drops, a redesigned Checkpoint 6, a new Bridge Level check-in, upgraded baggage claim devices and eight major public art installations. The Port of Seattle and Alaska Airlines marked the finish of major construction, the first of a run of Upgrade SEA projects due to complete before the summer's international soccer tournament.

Tesla beat fourth-quarter 2025 estimates with adjusted EPS of $0.50 on $24.9 billion revenue, but 2025 revenue fell 3% to $94.8 billion, its first annual decline; Musk said Model S and X production would end and their Fremont lines would build Optimus.

Waymo began fully autonomous rides at San Francisco International Airport for a select group of riders, with pickups and drop-offs at the SFO Rental Car Center and the terminals to follow.

Anthropic took a 13-year lease on all 420,000 square feet of 300 Howard Street, formerly 199 Fremont, one of San Francisco's largest office deals since 2019, as it grew past 1,300 staff in the Bay Area.

Foo Fighters, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Kesha and Laufey paid tribute to Mariah Carey at the 35th MusiCares Person of the Year gala at the Los Angeles Convention Center on 30 January 2026.

Shenman Entertainment's new donghua adaptation Way of Choices (Ze Tian Ji) begins streaming, following Chen Changsheng, a young man prophesied to die young who defies fate by pursuing an ancient path to prolong his life.

Arthur Grigoryan opens a small dine-in-only Armenian restaurant in a former doughnut shop in Glendale, drawing on home cooking from across the Armenian diaspora.

Star Detective Precure! begins broadcast, the 23rd entry in Toei's long-running magical-girl franchise, following student Anna Akechi after a mysterious pendant flings her back nearly three decades to team up with an aspiring detective and transform into a Precure.

Justin Rose, 45, closed with a 70 at Torrey Pines to finish at 23-under 265, breaking Tiger Woods' 1999 tournament record and winning by seven shots.

Kendrick Lamar won five Grammys on 1 February 2026, including a second straight Record of the Year for Luther with SZA, passing Jay-Z as the most-awarded rapper in Grammy history.

Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas won Song of the Year for "Wildflower" at the 68th Grammys on 1 February 2026, becoming the most-awarded artists in the category with three wins each.

The NFL's fan festival took over 500,000 square feet of Moscone Center for Super Bowl week, with all 59 Super Bowl rings, the Lombardi Trophy and a 40-yard dash, ahead of the game in Santa Clara.

The 68th Grammys averaged 14.4 million viewers on CBS and Paramount+, down 6 percent from 2025, in the show's final telecast on CBS before the move to ABC.