Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

On 3 February 2026 a 2.9% rally to a record close of US$127.71 pushed Walmart's market value past US$1 trillion for the first time, a week into John Furner's tenure as CEO.

On 3 February 2026 Disney's board announced it had unanimously elected Disney Experiences chairman Josh D'Amaro as CEO, effective at the 18 March 2026 annual meeting. Dana Walden was named president and chief creative officer.

On 4 February 2026 Texas Instruments and Silicon Labs signed a definitive agreement under which TI will acquire the Austin wireless-chip maker for US$231 per share in cash, an enterprise value of about US$7.5 billion.

On 4 February 2026 Raytheon, an RTX business, signed five up-to-seven-year framework agreements with the US Department of War to raise annual output of Tomahawk to over 1,000, AMRAAM to at least 1,900 and SM-6 to over 500, and to expand SM-3 interceptor production.

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.

On 5 February 2026 Rio Tinto said it would not bid for Glencore, ending talks on a combination that would have been the world's largest miner, after the two sides could not agree terms.

About 135 Canadian athletes paraded in Lululemon's burgundy-and-red maple-leaf kit at the first Olympic opening ceremony held across four sites, with flag bearers Mikaël Kingsbury and Marielle Thompson leading in Livigno.

As Official Timekeeper, Omega timed the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, 6-22 February 2026, its 32nd Games since 1932, and launched Speedmaster and Seamaster Diver 300M Milano Cortina watches.

The DanMachi franchise confirmed a sixth anime season of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? at its "Aedes Vesta" 10th anniversary event, following the Goddess of the Harvest arc of season 5.

Builders from Inland China and Taiwan won all three titles at the 13th Gunpla Builders World Cup final at The Gundam Base Tokyo on 7 February 2026, taking seven of nine podium places for Asia.

Verizon customers used 40.32 TB of data in and around Levi's Stadium on Super Bowl Sunday, 6% more than a year earlier and over five times the 7 TB of Super Bowl 50 at the same stadium, after nearly 200 network projects across the Bay Area.

Toronto's long-delayed 19km Eglinton Crosstown light rail line entered service as TTC Line 5, six years behind its original 2020 target.

Salesforce put Joe Inzerillo over both Slack and Agentforce and named new security, marketing and architecture chiefs, replacing five senior executives who had left since December.

Bad Bunny became the first Latino solo artist to headline the Super Bowl halftime show, performing almost entirely in Spanish with Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin; it averaged 128.2 million US viewers.

On 10 February 2026 Spotify reported 290 million Premium subscribers, 751 million monthly active users and EUR 701 million of operating income for the fourth quarter of 2025.

On 10 February 2026 Sanofi completed the acquisition of vaccine maker Dynavax at US$15.50 a share in cash, adding the two-dose hepatitis B vaccine Heplisav-B and a shingles vaccine candidate.

The Recording Academy added 11 albums and three songs to the Grammy Hall of Fame on 11 February 2026, including OK Computer, Rhythm Nation 1814, All Eyez On Me and Selena's Amor Prohibido.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on 11 February 2026, delayed from 6 February by a funding lapse, that employers added 130,000 jobs in January, with unemployment at 4.3% and 2025 growth revised down to 181,000.

On 12 February 2026 AB InBev reported full-year 2025 revenue of US$59.3 billion, underlying EPS up 6% and free cash flow of US$11.3 billion, and proposed a final dividend of 1.00 euro per share.

On 12 February 2026 Sanofi's board said it would not renew Paul Hudson, whose last day as CEO was 17 February, and named Merck KGaA chief Belén Garijo to succeed him after the 29 April shareholder meeting.

The FTC sent civil investigative demands to at least half a dozen Microsoft rivals, asking whether its licensing hobbles Windows and Office on other clouds and how it bundles AI, security and identity software.

Two more of the ten Common Central Secretariat blocks on Kartavya Path, along with the Seva Teerth complex, were inaugurated, taking to three the number of buildings in service in the Central Vista's replacement for Shastri, Nirman and Krishi Bhawan. The first three blocks, designed by HCP and built by Shapoorji Pallonji, cost 3,690 crore rupees and each spans about 150,000 sq m over seven floors and two basements.