Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

A third northwest Louisiana data center campus, at Resilient Technology Park in Shreveport, lifts Amazon's planned investment from $12 billion to $18 billion and its expected jobs to up to 750 across three campuses.

On 18 August 2026 Goldman Sachs announced an agreement to acquire LCN Capital Partners, a triple net lease and sale-leaseback manager with about US$3 billion under supervision, for up to about US$410 million.

On 19 August 2026 Target reported second-quarter net sales up 5.3% to US$26.5 billion, comparable sales up 3.8% and EPS of US$4.11, including a US$994 million pretax tariff refund benefit, and raised its full-year guidance.

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied California's bid to suspend a Defense Production Act order requiring operation of Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Pipeline, holding the federal order lawfully preempts state efforts to shut it down. The court also shifted pipeline safety oversight under the consent decree from California's Office of the State Fire Marshal to the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

Waymo opened its sixth-generation Ojai robotaxi, built by Zeekr, to the general public in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix, with Denver, San Diego and Las Vegas to follow.

Smartwatch with upgraded RAM and storage and more accurate GPS.

Apple cut more than 200 jobs, about 100 in its Vision Products Group, largely shutting its Vision Pro gaming team and shrinking immersive video, and about 100 in Siri and software as it shifts to Siri AI.

Archaeologists from the University of West Bohemia report a nearly circular 230-metre enclosure in Czechia, built about 6,500 years ago, whose twelve entrances align with the Sun and the Moon.

A 50% US duty on Canadian beer, wine, cider and spirits took effect after a three-day pause, in retaliation for provinces' boycott of American alcohol, and Canada suspended trade talks and vowed dollar-for-dollar countermeasures.

Fort Wayne, Marion and Indianapolis's Roudebush VA medical centres moved to the Federal EHR, taking VA to 11 hospitals live in 2026 and more than 617,000 veterans on the system.

On 23 August 2026 Alibaba announced a HK$80 billion (US$10.2 billion) placement of new shares, the largest primary follow-on offering by a Hong Kong-listed company, with all proceeds going to full-stack AI capabilities.

At the French-Saudi Investment Roundtable in Paris, Aramco announced a drilling-equipment procurement agreement, an oil country tubular goods purchase deal and an Aramco Digital MoU on industrial AI and digital twins, worth a potential $3.7 billion combined. It came during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to France.

USDA reopened the Douglas, AZ port to cattle imports from Mexico on 24 August 2026, the first step in a phased reopening of southern ports, under a joint US-Mexico screwworm protocol; Santa Teresa and Columbus, NM are considered next.

SpaceX and Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry announced on 25 August 2026 that the company will spend $100 billion to build "Starbase Louisiana," a Starship launch and manufacturing complex on roughly 125,000 acres near Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish, on land Exxon Mobil had returned to the state as part of a coastal-restoration settlement. The site is planned for five launch complexes (two pads each, ten pads total), a propellant plant to turn local natural gas into liquid methane, a power plant, a deep-water port, an airport and employee housing. SpaceX expects more than 3,000 direct jobs growing toward 10,000, construction starting in 2027 and a first launch no earlier than 2029; at full buildout the company says the site could support more than 30 Starship flights a day, making it SpaceX's fourth and largest launch facility after Starbase, Texas, Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg.

Qualcomm's Arduino opened worldwide pre-orders for the VENTUNO Q, a $299 board pairing a 40 TOPS Dragonwing IQ-8275 processor and 16 GB of memory with an STM32H5 microcontroller so robots and machines can run AI models and act on them offline.

On its August earnings call Nvidia gave its first-ever year-ahead forecast: about 70% revenue growth in the fiscal year ending January 2028, roughly $673 billion, limited by supply rather than demand.

Amazon signed a definitive agreement to buy DuckLabs, the bootstrapped Amsterdam team of more than 30 that builds the open-source DuckDB analytics database. DuckDB itself stays free under the MIT license and the independent DuckDB Foundation.