Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Meta releases Llama 3.3 70B, a text-only 70B instruction-tuned model that Meta says delivers the performance of the 405B Llama 3.1 at lower cost, with a 128K context window and open weights; Meta's chart prices it at $0.1 per 1 million input tokens.

NetEase Games' free-to-play 6v6 Marvel hero shooter launched at 00:00 UTC on 6 December 2024 (the evening of 5 December in the Americas) and reached 10 million players within 72 hours. It is 17th on Steam's chart for the week to 2 October 2026, with a peak of 75,875 concurrent players.

Notre-Dame Cathedral reopened to worshippers and visitors on December 7, 2024, five and a half years after a fire gutted its roof and spire.

Sparkly Key Animation releases Tunshi Xingkong Movie: Xueluo Dalu, a Swallowed Star feature-length special in which Luo Feng travels to the trial grounds of the Snow Fall Continent to grow strong enough to protect Earth.

Taylor Swift played the 149th and last show of the Eras Tour at BC Place, closing a 21-month run that grossed $2,077,618,725 from 10,168,008 tickets, the first tour ever to pass $2 billion.

Microsoft ended support for the first-generation HoloLens on 10 December 2024 with a final servicing update, saying devices would keep working but get no more security updates.

On 10 December 2024 GM said it would no longer fund Cruise's robotaxi development and fold Cruise and GM technical teams into one effort to advance driver assistance toward autonomous personal vehicles.

Google launches Gemini 2.0 with an experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash that beats 1.5 Pro at twice the speed, adds native image and audio output, and is built for the agentic era.

Missouri’s December 12, 2024 release reports Edged Kansas City’s opening ceremony occurred the previous day. The operating facility provides 26 MW of critical capacity with waterless cooling.

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.

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.