Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

On Holding announced that Frank Sluis, CFO for Europe and Indonesia at Ahold Delhaize, will become its Chief Financial Officer from 1 May 2026, taking the finance role from CEO Martin Hoffmann.

Verizon closed its purchase of Starry, a fixed wireless provider serving about 100,000 apartment-building customers in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Denver and Washington with millimeter-wave technology.

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.

A stopgap covering six of the twelve appropriations bills expired on 31 January 2026, closing roughly half of federal agencies until the House passed a funding package 217-214 on 3 February.

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.

Grammy nominee Darren Criss hosted the Premiere Ceremony at Peacock Theater on 1 February 2026, where the bulk of that year's Grammys were presented ahead of the main telecast.

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 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.

OpenAI restores GPT-5.2 Thinking's Extended thinking level in ChatGPT, undoing a reduction made by mistake in January.

The EEOC filed a subpoena enforcement action against Nike in federal court in St. Louis on 4 February 2026, seeking workforce data for its probe of whether Nike's DEI targets led to discrimination against white workers.

Jack Draper starred in Vuori's campaign for the HardKore Short, its most performance-focused take on the Kore Short, in ultralight ripstop at $98.

Sowmyanarayan Sampath stepped down as CEO of Verizon Consumer Group, with Chief Transformation Officer Alfonso Villanueva, a former PayPal colleague of Dan Schulman's, taking over on an interim basis.