Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Microsoft introduces Phi-4, a 14B-parameter small language model trained mostly on synthetic data that scores 91.8 on November 2024 AMC 10/12 math tests, ahead of Gemini Pro 1.5 at 89.8, on Azure AI Foundry; open MIT-licensed weights follow on 8 January 2025.

Chanel appointed Matthieu Blazy, previously creative director of Bottega Veneta, as its new artistic director of fashion, succeeding Virginie Viard and becoming only the fourth designer to lead the house after Gabrielle Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld and Viard.

A second season of 2.5 Dimensional Seduction, the anime of Yu Hashimoto's cosplay comedy about an otaku club president and the junior who wants him as her photographer, was announced at the end of the first season's finale.

Alo Yoga's first store in Ireland: a 6,738 sq ft shop at 62 Grafton Street, opened with a run of yoga, Pilates, boxing and run-club classes.

Isak Andic, the Turkish-born businessman who founded Mango in Barcelona in 1984 and built it into a global fashion retailer, died aged 71 after falling while hiking near the Coves del Salnitre de Collbató, outside Barcelona.

Fido achieved the #1 music ranking of 2025 on Nigeria's TurnTable Official Nigeria Top 100. TurnTable's Official Nigeria Top 100 ranking for December 2024 to November 2025 places Fido's Joy is Coming at number one.

A University of Miami-led study using satellite radar found dozens of Miami high-rises, including some under construction, are subsiding by millimetres a year.

Overlap Bunko's 10th-anniversary event announced a second season of The Unwanted Undead Adventurer, the dark fantasy about an adventurer who comes back as a skeleton.

Google DeepMind releases Veo 2, a video model it says reaches 4K and minutes-long clips with sharper physics and camera control, rolling it out through the VideoFX waitlist, where output was capped at 720p and eight seconds.

The FDA adds a boxed warning, its most prominent, to Astellas' hot-flash pill Veozah after a patient suffered serious liver injury within about 40 days of starting it, and orders monthly liver tests for the first months.

ESPN reported on 17 December 2024 that three-time WNBA MVP A'ja Wilson is signing a six-year Nike extension, one of the richest shoe deals for a women's basketball player; terms were not disclosed.

A Congress-ordered National Academies report finds with moderate certainty that moderate drinking is linked to lower all-cause mortality but a higher risk of female breast cancer, evidence meant to inform the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

IBM releases Granite 3.1: every Granite 3 model gains a 128K-token context window, with new Granite Embedding models and function-calling hallucination detection in Granite Guardian 3.1, all under Apache 2.0.

The FOMC lowered the federal funds target range by 1/4 percentage point to 4-1/4 to 4-1/2 percent on 18 December 2024 by an 11-1 vote, with Beth Hammack preferring to hold.

Kuaishou's Kling 1.6 improves prompt adherence and motion, with a claimed 195% gain over 1.5 in image-to-video and first and last frame control in Pro mode, and goes on to top the Artificial Analysis image-to-video arena.

The former Little Lehigh public housing site was redeveloped into 50 affordable one- through four-bedroom homes. Property information reviewed October 10, 2026. Published rents: 1 bedroom — operator-listed $1,053, 2 bedroom — operator-listed $1,265, 3 bedroom — operator-listed $1,191–$1,451.

On 20 December 2024 a Delaware federal jury found that Qualcomm had not breached its Nuvia-related agreement with Arm and that its custom CPUs are licensed, while deadlocking on whether Nuvia itself breached its licence.

Connecticut selected Jupiter Power’s 200 MW Naugatuck Avenue battery project in its December 2024 solicitation. Selection begins contract negotiations; it does not establish construction, a $240 million budget or an opening date.

At NIO Day 2024 in Guangzhou on 21 December, NIO launched the ET9 executive flagship sedan at RMB 788,000 and officially launched its third brand, firefly, whose first model opened pre-orders at RMB 148,000.

Nordstrom's board agreed to sell the retailer to the founding Nordstrom family and Mexican department-store group El Puerto de Liverpool for $24.25 a share in cash, a $6.25 billion deal that would return the 124-year-old chain to family control with the family holding 50.1% and Liverpool 49.9%.

Saks Global closed its purchase of Neiman Marcus Group at a final enterprise value of $2.7 billion, bringing Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman together with Saks Fifth Avenue and Saks Off 5th under the new, technology-powered luxury retail company first announced in July.

Chugoku’s results distinguish this generator synchronization from the December 7 reactor startup and January 10 commercial return.

Commercial operation resumes at 16:00 Japan time after final checks. Electrical rating is 796 MWe net / 825 MWe gross.

Link Click: Bridon Arc, the third season of the Chinese donghua Link Click, begins streaming, sending photo-editing duo Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang to the city of Bridon to chase clues about Cheng Xiaoshi's parents.

Wilmar's Lence Pte signs an option to buy up to 31.06% of Adani Wilmar from Adani Commodities at no more than Rs 305 a share, while Adani sells about 13% to the public, ending the Adani half of the Fortune joint venture.

The West Side of New York City is in the midst of being transformed. Construction is well underway on Hudson Yards — the largest private real estate development in the history of the United States and the source of a new neighborhood situated between Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen. Once completed, the site will be home to more than 17 million square feet of newly created space, including a public school and a much-anticipated cultural facility. Here’s an update on New York City’s largest project since Rockefeller Center.