Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

On 3 September 2026 Kalle Lappinen found about 4.5 kilograms of silver coins and objects buried in two birch-bark containers in a forest near Sysmä, far larger than the previous Finnish record from 1895.

New Core ($195), Advanced ($395) and Max ($550 per user a month) editions of Agentforce Sales, Service and Industries bundle Slack, Tableau Next, security and Flex Credits into one purchase.

NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face, the open-model hub used by more than 18 million developers, for $12,930,300,000, and says the platform will stay open to other chips, clouds and model makers.

Supreme releases a Fall 2026 collection with photographer Larry Clark that uses pictures from his 1971 book Tulsa and new photographs made for Supreme, across a varsity jacket, tees, a skateboard and a zine.

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra, which it calls the world's most intelligent and aligned model, first to a limited set of organizations and then to paid ChatGPT plans, the API and AWS; it is the first OpenAI model rated Critical for cybersecurity.

The World Meteorological Organization says El Niño will persist through February 2027 at very strong levels, raising the risk of floods, droughts and extreme heat in the months ahead.

From 3 September 2026 Zoox riders could book driverless trips between Harry Reid International Airport and the Las Vegas Strip, the company's first airport service, with pickups at both Terminal 1 and Terminal 3.

Victoria's Secret & Co. reported second-quarter 2026 net sales up 10% to $1.611 billion and operating income more than six times higher than a year earlier, as CEO Hillary Super's turnaround continued and the company teased a bigger annual fashion show for the rest of the year.

Google puts Lyria 3.5, its best-sounding music generation model, into the Gemini app for all users worldwide and into the Gemini API, generating full songs with vocals and lyrics at 44.1 kHz from text or images for $0.08 a song.

On 4 September 2026 the Navy gave Newport News Shipbuilding a $336 million undefinitized contract for reactor equipment, heavy forgings and propulsion hardware for CVN 82, the fifth Ford-class carrier, due to be laid down in 2027.

The final of the 13th LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers took place September 4, 2026 at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, where Belgian designer Julie Kegels won the top prize and a 400,000-euro endowment; Chinese designer Zane Li (Lii) won the Karl Lagerfeld Prize and Kenyan designer Anil Padia (Yoshita 1967) won the Savoir-Faire Prize.

Rosneft's Vostok Oil project loaded its first tanker at the new Bukhta Sever terminal on Russia's Taymyr Peninsula, opening a huge new Arctic export route despite Western sanctions.

Former Nike executive Heidi O'Neill starts as Lululemon's CEO and joins its board, ending seven months of interim co-CEOs; the board also amends the bylaws the same day.

Six months after restarting, Sable Offshore began excavating 12 anomalies flagged by in-line inspection on the onshore pipeline that ruptured in 2015, seven of them in the coastal zone; any spot with wall loss of 40% or more must be repaired.

PISA 2025, released on 8 September 2026, tested about 760,000 students in science, reading and maths, with an OECD average of 482 in science and mathematics down 46 points since 2003.

At Nike's virtual 2026 annual meeting the advisory vote on executive pay passed 736,936,017 to 349,508,277, director Thasunda Duckett drew 310,517,784 withheld votes, and John Rogers Jr. left the board, which shrank to 11.

Alo signed actor, singer and racing driver Wang Yibo, who has more than 41 million Weibo followers, as a global ambassador weeks after opening its Tmall store in China.

OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.5 to every ChatGPT tier, generating images up to 50% faster, and two API models: GPT-Image-2.5 Flare for fast everyday images and GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst for precise editing.

Verizon agreed to buy more than 80 million miles of Corning optical fiber from 2027 to 2032 to push toward 40-50 million broadband passings and build long-haul fiber between AI data centers.

A Northumbria University team using the William Herschel Telescope's WEAVE spectrograph found unusually nitrogen-rich gas in the tail of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, pointing to formation at about 30 kelvin far from its home star.

A Fifth Circuit panel of Judges Richman, Higginson and Douglas heard Louisiana's bid to end telehealth prescribing of mifepristone and pressed the state hard on whether it has standing to sue.

Inditex's first-half 2026 net sales rose 7.6% to €19.8 billion (9.2% at constant currency) and net income increased 6.8% to €3.0 billion, with the Zara owner citing strong demand for its Spring/Summer collections in stores and online.

Vuori named Emmy-nominated actor Chase Infiniti its newest partner in "Find What Moves You", a dance film directed by Renell Medrano and choreographed by Sean Bankhead with her Chicago dance crew.

The International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry announced its 300th brand signatory, a legally binding worker-safety agreement covering more than 3.4 million workers across 2,000 factories in Bangladesh and Pakistan.