Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Lululemon's first Italian store opened in Milan's main shopping street: about 5,700 sq ft on two floors behind a 3-D printed facade modelled on its Define Jacket.

The Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn and Bryn Mawr stations reopened fully accessible, with elevators and escalators at main entrances, wider platforms, translucent overhead canopies and new public artwork. They sit on 1.3 miles of new track structure, bridges and viaducts built between Lawrence and Bryn Mawr under the CTA's $2.1 billion Red and Purple Modernization Phase One project.

Verizon beat its own plan in the second quarter of 2025, with adjusted EPS of $1.22 and wireless service revenue of $20.9 billion, and raised its full-year guidance for adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EPS and free cash flow.

Hershey told retailers it would raise prices on many chocolate products by a low double-digit percentage, blaming the unprecedented cost of cocoa rather than tariffs. Halloween packs were spared, and it said 75% of its candy would still cost under $4.

OpenAI said Oracle will develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate data center capacity in the US, taking Stargate past 5 GW under development and over 2 million chips alongside the Abilene site.

Cloud-provider lobby CISPE asked the EU General Court (Case T-503/25) to annul the Commission's 12 July 2023 clearance of Broadcom's acquisition of VMware (Case M.10806). It argues the Commission failed to assess the deal's effects on server virtualisation software, bundling and innovation.

Tesla's second-quarter 2025 revenue fell 12% to $22.5 billion and automotive revenue 16%; Musk warned of 'a few rough quarters' as the U.S. EV tax credit ended, and the shares fell 8% the next day.

Wit Studio's My Melody & Kuromi begins streaming on Netflix, a Sanrio series following the two rival mascots as they open competing sweet shops in the town of Mariland.

Nestlé's first-half organic growth was 2.9%, almost all of it from pricing with real internal growth of just 0.2%, while reported sales fell 1.8% to CHF 44.2 billion on the strong franc. CEO Laurent Freixe kept 2025 guidance, including an underlying trading margin at or above 16.0%.

Four-time Olympic champion Léon Marchand, 23, joined Nike's global athlete roster, alongside fellow French Nike athletes Kylian Mbappé and Victor Wembanyama.

England drew 1-1 with world champions Spain in Basel and won the shoot-out 3-1, with Hannah Hampton saving two penalties and Chloe Kelly scoring the winner, to keep their European title.

A gunman with an M4 rifle killed four people, including off-duty NYPD officer Didarul Islam, and wounded a fifth inside the Midtown office tower at 345 Park Avenue before killing himself on the 33rd floor.

Samsung disclosed a $16.5 billion chipmaking contract running to the end of 2033, and Elon Musk confirmed Samsung's new fab in Taylor, Texas, will be dedicated to Tesla's next-generation AI6 chip.

Alo's third shoe, a slim suede sneaker named for Sunset Boulevard with a recovery-foam insole, went on sale for $225 in black and sand.

Qualcomm's fiscal third quarter brought $10.37 billion of revenue, up 10%, and record automotive chip sales of $984 million, though the shares slid after hours.

The FOMC left the federal funds target range at 4-1/4 to 4-1/2 percent on 30 July 2025 by a 9-2 vote, with Michelle Bowman and Christopher Waller preferring a quarter-point cut.

Crews finished excavating the huge cavern in a Japanese mountain that will house the Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino observatory, a step toward the detector's planned start of observations.

Chef-owner Kari Shaughnessy opens a polished, seasonal restaurant in Carlton, a town of about 2,100 in Oregon's wine country.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on 1 August 2025 that employers added 73,000 jobs in July, with unemployment at 4.2% and May and June cut by a combined 258,000.

A federal jury in Miami found Tesla 33% responsible for a 2019 Key Largo crash in which a Model S on Enhanced Autopilot killed Naibel Benavides Leon, leaving Tesla owing about $242.5 million including $200 million in punitive damages.

Germany's competition authority cleared Salesforce's acquisition of sole control of Informatica, finding that rivals such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and IBM already hold similar data assets.

At Hanwha Philly Shipyard in August 2025 hull assembly began on Makua, the first of three 3,600-TEU LNG-fuelled Aloha class ships built for Matson's Hawaii, Guam and China-Long Beach Express services for nearly $1 billion.

At the court meeting and general meeting in London, Alphawave shareholders backed Qualcomm's $2.4 billion takeover scheme with 99.97% of the votes cast, and the UK cleared the deal on national-security grounds the same day.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1, an upgrade to Claude Opus 4 that raises its SWE-bench Verified coding score to 74.5% at the same price, on the day OpenAI released its first open-weight models since 2019.

Italy's government gave final approval to build a suspension bridge across the Strait of Messina, reviving a project that had stalled for over 50 years.

OpenAI's GPT-5 becomes ChatGPT's new flagship and default model, rolling out to Free, Plus, Pro and Team users.

A 15% US baseline tariff on European Union goods, covering most EU-made fashion and leather goods among other categories, took effect under an executive order implementing the Trump administration's trade framework with the EU.

Using OAuth tokens stolen from Salesloft's Drift chatbot, the UNC6395 crew exported data from hundreds of companies' Salesforce instances, hunting support cases for AWS keys, passwords and Snowflake tokens.

Vuori opened a store at 414 East Cooper Avenue in Aspen, Colorado, on 8 August 2025, the opening with which it said it had reached 100 owned retail locations, ahead of its goal of 100 by 2026.

Kendall Jenner returned to Alo for its fall 2025 campaign, shot at Amangiri in Utah, with a 10-piece Core capsule she picked herself - the first of four drops.

PLDT's first-half 2025 core income edged up to ₱17.6 billion on a ₱1.1 billion swing at Maya, while full-year capex guidance was cut to ₱63 billion from ₱68-73 billion and the board declared a ₱48 interim dividend.

WARN notices show Oracle laying off 161 people in Seattle plus staff at its Pleasanton, Redwood City and Santa Clara campuses, with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure teams hit.

Gallup's annual Consumption Habits poll finds 54% of US adults drink, the lowest in its trend back to 1939, and for the first time a majority, 53%, say moderate drinking is bad for health.

Vans named SZA its first-ever Artistic Director in a multi-year partnership to reimagine its campaigns and co-create product collections, opening with a brand anthem film starring her go-to Knu Skool.

Philip Krajeck, of Rolf & Daughters and Folk, opens a calm New American bistro in a former Piggly Wiggly on Dickerson Pike.

Donald Trump hosted Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage for their first summit since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine; the talks ended without a ceasefire or any agreement being announced.

Former Wendy's and PepsiCo executive Kirk Tanner became Hershey's President and CEO and joined its board, while Michele Buck stepped down. Maria Kraus, who also chairs the Hershey Trust, replaced Buck as chairman.