Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

OpenAI updates GPT-5.2 Instant's default personality to be more conversational and better at adapting its tone to context.

Frasers Group voted against re-electing ASOS's board, approving its annual report and reappointing PwC as auditor at ASOS's annual general meeting, though all resolutions still passed with roughly 71-72% support after Mike Ashley's Frasers built a stake of about a quarter of the company.

Cosmic Princess Kaguya!, a Studio Colorido and Studio Chromato reimagining of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, streams on Netflix, blending Japan's oldest folktale with music and modern animation.

The rebuild of the north end of SEA's main terminal added the airport's first at-scale automated bag drops, a redesigned Checkpoint 6, a new Bridge Level check-in, upgraded baggage claim devices and eight major public art installations. The Port of Seattle and Alaska Airlines marked the finish of major construction, the first of a run of Upgrade SEA projects due to complete before the summer's international soccer tournament.

The LVCVA reported 38.5 million visitors for 2025, down 7.5% from 41.7 million in 2024 and capped by a 9.2% drop in December, with hotel occupancy down 3.3 points to 80.3%.

The last structural beam went up on Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's 26-story inpatient tower in University City, 1.3 million square feet on Osler Circle with a private room for every patient. The $2.59 billion building opens in 2028.

On 29 January 2026 Lukoil signed a non-exclusive agreement to sell LUKOIL International GmbH, its portfolio outside Russia worth about $22 billion, to the US investment firm Carlyle, subject to OFAC approval; Kazakhstan's assets are excluded.

The Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry reported on 29 January 2026 that Swiss watch exports fell 1.7% in 2025 to 25.6 billion francs, a second straight annual decline. Exports to China dropped 12.1% while the United States held steady at 17% of the total.

Panama's Supreme Court ruled on 29 January 2026 that the concession held by CK Hutchison's Panama Ports Company at Balboa and Cristobal was unconstitutional. The decision clouded the 23 billion dollar BlackRock and MSC ports sale.

Spot gold touched a record US$5,594.82 an ounce on 29 January 2026, per Reuters, before reversing more than 5% the same session. It has not set a higher price since and trades about 26% lower in October 2026.

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.

US District Judge Margaret Garnett dismissed the two federal gun counts against Luigi Mangione, including the only death-eligible charge, leaving two stalking counts that carry up to life in prison.

The Paris prosecutor's public-health unit opened five investigations, for deception endangering health and endangering life, into infant formula sold by Nestlé, Lactalis, Danone, Babybio and La Marque en moins.

Shenman Entertainment's new donghua adaptation Way of Choices (Ze Tian Ji) begins streaming, following Chen Changsheng, a young man prophesied to die young who defies fate by pursuing an ancient path to prolong his life.

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.

Earl Ninsom, of Langbaan, opens a Northern Thai restaurant on SE Division Street in the space once occupied by Andy Ricker's Pok Pok.