Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Alibaba's Qwen team open-sources the Qwen3 family under Apache 2.0, six dense models from 0.6B to 32B and two mixture-of-experts models (30B-A3B and 235B-A22B), with switchable thinking and non-thinking modes and 119 languages; the dense flagship Qwen3-32B scores 93.8 on Arena-Hard in thinking mode.

Cindy Crawford, Rande Gerber and their children Kaia and Presley became Vuori ambassadors and creative, strategic and financial partners, starring in and art-directing its Spring/Summer 2025 campaign.

On 30 April 2025 Visa introduced Visa Intelligent Commerce, an initiative opening its payments network to developers building AI agents that browse, select and buy on a consumer's behalf, announced at its Global Product Drop in San Francisco.

Shenman Entertainment releases Shen Yin Wangzuo Movie: Yi Lai Ke Si Chuanqi, a spinoff film in the Throne of Seal donghua franchise retelling the legend of the Holy Necromancer God Yi Lai Ke Si and his war against the undead.

Hershey's first-quarter net sales fell 13.8% to $2.81 billion and adjusted EPS 32% to $2.09 as it lapped last year's pre-ERP stock build and a later Easter; it held its 2025 outlook and put Q2 tariff costs at $15-20 million.

IBM releases Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview, an early look at a 7B-parameter hybrid Mamba-2/transformer mixture-of-experts model with 1B active parameters, trained on only 2.5 trillion tokens so far.

President Trump ended duty-free de minimis treatment for shipments worth $800 or less from China and Hong Kong at 12:01 a.m. EDT on 2 May 2025. The change subjected packages from platforms such as Shein and Temu to full customs duties and formal entry.

March 2025: the trade gap was $140.5 billion, up $17.3 billion from the revised prior month. Exports rose to $278.5 billion and imports rose to $419.0 billion. Released May 6, 2025.

Two weeks after the Pahalgam attack killed 26 people, India struck what it called nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, opening four days of the heaviest fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbours in decades.

King Charles III officially opened the Thames Tideway Tunnel, a 25km deep sewer built to stop billions of litres of sewage overflowing into the Thames each year.

The FOMC held the federal funds target range at 4-1/4 to 4-1/2 percent on 7 May 2025 by a unanimous vote, noting that swings in net exports had affected the data.

De Beers Group said it intends to close Lightbox, the lab-grown diamond jewellery brand it launched in 2018, after wholesale lab-grown prices fell 90% and diverged sharply from natural diamonds.

The 60th Academy of Country Music Awards, hosted by Reba McEntire at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas on 8 May 2025, gave Lainey Wilson a second straight Entertainer of the Year, Ella Langley five wins and Alan Jackson the first Alan Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award.

On and the Swiss Ski Federation agreed an early eight-year extension to 2034, with On equipping all eleven Swiss-Ski snow sports and more than 300 squad athletes with off-snow training apparel and shoes; terms were not disclosed.

The FDA approves Teal Health's Teal Wand, the first device that lets women collect their own vaginal sample at home for HPV-based cervical cancer screening instead of a speculum exam.

Qualcomm added Christopher Young, Microsoft's executive vice president for business development, strategy and ventures and a former McAfee CEO, to its board and its HR and Compensation Committee.

OpenAI improves GPT-4o's system instructions so ChatGPT calls its image generation tool when users want an image.

At the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh, Qualcomm and Saudi Arabia's national AI company HUMAIN agreed to develop AI data centres and supply Qualcomm data-centre CPU and AI chips, with a Qualcomm chip design centre for the Kingdom.

On Holding's first-quarter 2025 net sales rose 43.0% to a record CHF 726.6 million, and it lifted full-year growth guidance to at least 28% in constant currency despite tariff uncertainty.

Sanofi announced its intention to invest at least US$20 billion in the United States through 2030. The commitment includes increased R&D spending and billions of dollars for domestic manufacturing.

OpenAI replaces GPT-4o mini with GPT-4.1 mini in ChatGPT, improving instruction following, coding and overall intelligence for its small model.