Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8, stronger across coding, agentic tasks and professional work, with the consistency to keep working on long-running tasks.

The FY2027 state budget, the latest in 16 years, commits $4.5 billion to child care and pre-K on a path to universal child care, sends $1 billion in energy rebate checks and adds a surcharge on luxury New York City second homes. Lawmakers finished passing it late on 27 May, nearly two months after the 1 April deadline.

Mayor Karen Bass signed a $14.85 billion balanced budget for fiscal 2026-27, $750 million more than the year before, keeping Inside Safe, funding 510 new police officers and more street and sidewalk repair.

Daniel Patterson, best known for Coi in San Francisco, returns to fine dining with a 12-course tasting menu on Melrose Avenue, with his wife Sarah Lewitinn and pastry chef Matt Tinder.

OpenAI, Oracle, Related Digital, Blackstone, Walbridge and Governor Gretchen Whitmer marked construction of The Barn in Saline Township, the largest investment in Michigan's history, and pledged $10 million to the Saline Recreation Center.

Salesforce agreed to buy Contentful, the composable content platform used by more than 4,800 brands, for about $1.5 billion in cash to give Headless 360 and Agentforce a native content layer.

Qualcomm's CEO gave the opening keynote of COMPUTEX 2026 in Taipei, declaring 2026 'the year of agents' and forecasting 40x growth in token demand by 2030, as partners showed new Snapdragon X2 PCs including the first X2 Elite desktop.

A Federal Circuit panel of Judges Prost, Chen and Stark heard ParkerVision's appeal of the claim construction that ended its receiver-patent claims against Qualcomm.

Verizon completed its $1 billion cash purchase of cellular, AWS and PCS spectrum licenses from Array Digital Infrastructure, the former UScellular, covering about 8 percent of the US population.

Ferrara, which bought Jelly Belly in 2023, began laying off 69 of the 374 staff at Jelly Belly's Fairfield, California headquarters as it shuts the corporate and commercial offices there; the factory, warehouse and visitor center stay open.

A 200-ton steel truss was attached to a buttress on the east side of the ballpark on 1 June, the first piece of the arching roof that will top out about 290 feet over the field, roughly the height of the MGM Grand across Tropicana Avenue.

Mayor Daniel Lurie sent the supervisors a two-year $16.9 billion budget for FY2026-27 and 2027-28 that closes a $642 million deficit, eliminates 550 positions and spends reserves to keep residents on Medi-Cal and CalFresh as federal cuts land.

City voters turned down an $8,000-a-year tax on second homes left vacant more than half the year, 53.2% to 46.8%, the latest in a run of failed San Diego tax measures.

Wilmar will pool its Nigerian and Beninese plantations, edible-oil and food businesses with TGI Group's brands and distribution in a Singapore-held 50:50 venture targeting a US$12 billion market.

A 20-course, $295 tasting menu staged as theatre: 26 diners at a time move from a graffiti lounge to a projection-mapped communal room, past the open kitchen and into a chandeliered dining room, two or three seatings a night.

Denver Water finished raising Colorado's Gross Dam by 131 feet, topping out the concrete work that will nearly triple the reservoir's storage capacity.

Aldi presented unions with a plan to open all its Belgian stores on Sundays from 8:30 to 13:00, staffed by volunteers paid a premium or given extra leave; unions said the hours break the Sunday closing law.

Avenue C offers 120 one- and two-bedroom affordable apartments for adults 55+ in Magnolia Park / the East End. [2] Operator announced the grand opening June 4, 2026.

Atlantic Square is a 616-apartment mixed-income tower in Overtown with affordable, workforce and market-rate housing, near Brightline, Metrorail and Metromover. Developer published its grand-opening announcement June 4, 2026. Published rents: Workforce plans, operator FAQ starting price From $1,980.

PLDT signed a share purchase agreement with Meralco's Paragon Vertical for the 65.1% of fibre carrier Radius Telecoms it does not own, a PHP 2.935 billion deal that will make Radius a wholly owned unit once the competition and telecom regulators approve.

Primavera Sound's 24th Barcelona edition sold out for a second straight year and drew 287,000 people to Parc del Fòrum, but heavy rain and 80 km/h winds cancelled Thursday's sets by Doja Cat, Massive Attack and Bad Gyal.