Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Mistral AI releases Mistral Medium 3.5, its first merged flagship: a 128B dense open-weight model with a 256K context window that scores 77.6% on SWE-Bench Verified and costs $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens.

Revenue jumped 22% with India's AWL now consolidated, but unrealised hedging losses from the Iran war and weaker associates cut net profit to US$265.6 million.

Brent crude surged overnight on 30 April 2026 to $126.41 a barrel, the highest since early 2022, on the expiring June contract, before falling back toward $116 as volumes thinned; US gasoline hit a four-year high of $4.30.

Hershey's first-quarter net sales rose 10.6% to $3.10 billion on about 10 points of price and the LesserEvil deal, and adjusted EPS rose 12% to $2.35 as reported profit nearly doubled; it reaffirmed its 2026 outlook.

On 1 May 2026, the eve of his first annual meeting as Berkshire Hathaway CEO, Greg Abel told CNBC's Becky Quick on Squawk Box about risk management, inflation, the stock portfolio and his runway in the job.

The final structural beam went in at the top of the 660-foot guitar-shaped hotel tower, built on the former site of the Mirage's volcano and holding 675 of the resort's rooms. The $4 billion Hard Rock Las Vegas is a full rebuild of the Mirage, which closed on 17 July 2024, and is expected to open in the fourth quarter of 2027.

The one-off special My Hero Academia More premieres, checking in on the grown former students of Class 1-A in Kohei Horikoshi’s superhero series after the main story’s end.

The Padres' owners agreed to hand control of the club to a group led by Clearlake Capital co-founder José E. Feliciano and his wife Kwanza Jones, at a reported record $3.9 billion.

On 5 May 2026 AB InBev reported first-quarter revenue up 5.8% to US$15.3 billion, beer volume growth of 1.2% and underlying EPS of US$0.97, up 20.8%.

Hilton opened Waldorf Astoria Rabat-Salé on 5 May 2026, the brand's first hotel in Morocco, in the Mohammed VI Tower, Morocco's tallest building. The hotel has 55 rooms and suites, five dining venues and a collection of nearly 7,000 artworks.

Salesforce's new Builder programme, run through its Futureforce university recruiting, set out to hire 1,000 graduates and interns into engineering, product and sales roles building Agentforce.

On 6 May 2026 Lockheed Martin announced that Aeronautics president Greg Ulmer would retire and Skunk Works head Orlando "OJ" Sanchez Jr. would succeed him on 1 June.

Stella McCartney returned to H&M 21 years after her 2005 collaboration with a womenswear collection in recycled and certified materials, on sale in selected stores and online from 7 May 2026.