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After Brad Reese, grandson of the cup's inventor, accused Hershey of swapping milk chocolate for cheaper compound coatings, CEO Kirk Tanner said the company will return to classic milk and dark chocolate recipes by 2027.

U.S. District Judge Adrienne Nelson in Portland dismissed most of a securities class action over Nike's direct-to-consumer strategy on 31 March 2026, letting claims against Nike and former CEO John Donahoe go ahead over one September 2023 statement.

Multiple Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis stopped on Wuhan roads on the night of 31 March 2026, leaving passengers stranded on elevated highways for a time; police blamed a system failure, all passengers got out safely and service resumed.

At an investor day at the New York Stock Exchange led by CEO Kirk Tanner, Hershey set out its ONE Hershey plan across sweet, salty and protein snacks. It targeted 2-4% organic sales growth, 15-20% adjusted EPS growth in 2027 and 6-8% from 2028.

L'Oréal completes its purchase of Kering Beauté, including the House of Creed and new 50-year fragrance and beauty licences for Bottega Veneta and Balenciaga, finalizing the alliance the two groups announced five months earlier.

OpenAI announced on 31 March 2026 that it had closed US$122 billion in committed capital at an US$852 billion post-money valuation, the largest private technology funding round on record. It grew from the US$110 billion first close announced on 27 February.

A Manhattan federal judge partly denied Lululemon's motion to dismiss a shareholder class action over its 2023-24 statements, finding plausible claims of misleading statements and scienter, citing alleged insider trading.

A Manhattan federal judge ruled Nike's warp-knitted shoe upper patent invalid as obvious and wiped out the $355,450 jury award against Lululemon's Blissfeel and Chargefeel sneakers.

DOE went back to the market on 1 April 2026 for a third exchange, this one drawn entirely from the Bryan Mound caverns outside Freeport, Texas. Bidders had until the following Monday, and a limited Jones Act waiver let them move the crude on foreign-flagged ships to get it to refiners faster.

As Ayanokouji and his classmates begin their second year at the Advanced Nurturing High School, they’re greeted by a fresh gauntlet of exams and a fresh batch of rather unique first-year students.

Dorohedoro's second season streams on Netflix, with MAPPA continuing the story of the amnesiac, lizard-headed Caiman as he closes in on the sorcerer responsible for his cursed appearance.

Ferrero North America's first portfolio-wide campaign, its biggest marketing commitment ever, offers a $1 million prize to shoppers across the World Cup summer, fronted by Tom Brady.

Work started on the foundational infrastructure for a 65,000-seat domed stadium on the old RFK Stadium site in southeast Washington, with the full groundbreaking held back to early 2027 and opening expected in 2030. The Commanders are putting up $2.7 billion towards a project projected at $3.8 billion; the District is spending $500 million on infrastructure and will own the building.

Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 398B-parameter open reasoning model (about 13B active) built for long-horizon agents, which it says ranks second on PinchBench behind Claude Opus 4.6 at $0.90 per 1 million output tokens.

Lars Kürten, previously deputy CEO of Aldi France, took charge of Aldi Nord's German business from Felix Rottmann, who stays on the group executive board.

Z.ai (Zhipu AI) releases GLM-5V-Turbo, its first multimodal coding foundation model, which turns design mockups, screenshots and video into runnable front-end code and scores 94.8 on Design2Code against Claude Opus 4.6's 77.3.

Jon Sybert and Jill Tyler replace Tail Up Goat with a counter-service New American restaurant in the same space.

February 2026: the trade gap was $57.3 billion, up $2.7 billion from the revised prior month. Exports rose to $314.8 billion and imports rose to $372.1 billion. Released April 2, 2026.

The fourth season of Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun begins broadcast, continuing Bandai Namco Pictures’ adaptation of Osamu Nishi’s manga about a timid human boy secretly enrolled at a school for demons.