Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The 45th Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair and the 14th Salon de TIME ran from 1 to 5 September 2026 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, in a hybrid format with an online matching platform. It is Asia's main sourcing fair for watches, movements and components.

Nestlé agreed to sell its mainstream vitamins business - Nature's Bounty, Osteo Bi-Flex, Ester-C, Gard, Nuun, Puritan's Pride and Sisu, with its US private-label supplements and their plants - to Yellow Wood Partners for $1.0 billion. The business had $1.2 billion of sales in 2025; Nestlé keeps premium brands such as Solgar and Pure Encapsulations.

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash, its best reasoning and coding model yet at the introductory price of 3.7 Flash, alongside Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a vulnerability-finding and patching model offered only to trusted government and enterprise defenders through its new Fairwind Program.

Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected the DOJ's bid to make Google sell its AdX ad exchange, ordering behavioral remedies overseen by a Monitor and Technical Committee instead. Google still stands found liable for monopolizing ad tech.

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.

Lotte Wellfood's Gunwi Apple series puts apples from Daegu's Gunwi County in 15 products, from Mongshell to Kkokkalcon, unveiled on 3 September 2026.

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.

Oreo's limited-edition Finger-Lickin' Original Chicken sandwich cookie, made with KFC, is on sale in China from September 2026 for the brand's 30th anniversary there.

Tesla is buying back 15 Canadian-market Model 3 and Model Y cars that were imported into the US without the knee airbag and other protections US safety standards require, after wrongly certifying them as compliant; owner letters were due 5 September 2026.

Production I.G spins Kaiju No. 8's eccentric Division 1 captain Gen Narumi off into a short original anime about his days off the battlefield.

Portable Bluetooth speaker with colorful LED lighting and an IP68 rating.

The state-security spy drama The Long Watch (交锋), led by Wang Kai, Zhou Yiran, Ou Hao and Peng Yuchang, premiered on CCTV-8 and Tencent Video on 6 September 2026. It was written under the guidance of the Ministry of State Security.