Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

Hocco's limited-edition Bullet Ice Cream, a Rs 100 five-stick pack on sale on quick-commerce apps since late August, reached the day Mirzapur: The Movie opened in cinemas on 4 September.

Lululemon entered Austria with a 200 m2 franchise store on Vienna's Kärntner Straße, its fifth new market of 2026 with Arion Retail Group.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on 4 September 2026 that employers added 162,000 jobs in August, with unemployment unchanged at 4.1% and June and July revised up by 55,000.

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.

New York's 2026 Dairy Products Competition, announced at the Great New York State Fair on 4 September, gave ice cream golds to Shtayburne Farm Dairy, Byrne Dairy and Stewart's Mint Cookie Crumble.

Golden Piece's artisanal Gaeseong Yakgwa was selected as the #1 Brand of the Year in the Yakgwa category at the 2026 Brand of the Year Awards, elevating traditional Korean royal confectionery with laminated dough and artisanal grain syrup.

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

Sixteen skippers left Les Sables-d'Olonne on 6 September 2026 on the fourth Golden Globe Race, a solo non-stop circumnavigation of about 30,000 nautical miles with sextants and paper charts, expected to take around eight months.

Haitai's Fall in café series puts café drinks on Matdongsan, Sand Ace, Jayu Sigan and Oyes, limited to 3.2 million units, announced on 7 September 2026.

Glico's first Giant Cone collaboration with the anime The Apothecary Diaries brings Maomao and Jinshi packs and a receipt-entry prize draw running from 7 September to 29 November.

Industry insider NateTheHate says Insomniac Games' rumored Venom spin-off remains in development despite the death of voice actor Tony Todd, though Insomniac has not confirmed the project exists.

Xiaomi launched its first extended-range models on 7 September 2026, the Sky Nomad N70 and N90 SUVs from 209,900 yuan, with up to 505 km of electric range, and recorded 10,000 locked-in orders within four minutes.

Magnum's UK ice cream pints are renamed Magnum Crackables, adding a pistachio flavour to Classic and Salted Caramel at £4.95 RRP for a 440 ml tub, rolling out through September 2026.

PARM Caramel Vanille wraps caramel-vanilla ice with a salted caramel sauce core in white chocolate, in an 80 ml bar at 190 yen before tax from 7 September.

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.

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.

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.

EverBank and Seattle-based WaFd announced on 8 September 2026 a US$3.9 billion reverse merger creating a US$75 billion-asset regional bank, due to close in the first quarter of 2027.

XPeng said on 8 September 2026 that its humanoid robot production line, more than 80% automated, is running and an Iron robot walked off it unaided; mass production is due by the end of 2026 with sales in China and overseas in 2027.

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.

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.