Pins matching date:2026-03-05

OpenAI brings GPT-5.4 Thinking to ChatGPT, a frontier model combining GPT-5.3-Codex's coding with better work across tools, documents and spreadsheets.

Mega Crit's roguelike deckbuilder sequel entered Early Access on Steam on 5 March 2026 at $24.99, with four-player co-op and five characters. It ranks 12th on Steam's most-played chart, peaking at 87,570 concurrent players in the week to 2 October 2026.

50 planned affordable homes for adults 55+, including 44 one-bedroom and six two-bedroom apartments at 30%–70% AMI. Groundbreaking report published March 5, 2026; anticipated opening summer 2027.

The Imperial Hotel opened its 55-room Imperial Hotel, Kyoto on 5 March 2026 inside part of the Yasaka Kaikan, a registered cultural property in Gion, its first new hotel in about 30 years.

Two Rivers Energy Storage LLC's 150 MW / 600 MWh battery, also called the Garden State Reliability Project (Two Rivers Storage) and developed by Elevate Renewables, was selected by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities on 5 March 2026 for the Bergen Generating Station site in Ridgefield, Bergen County, with roughly $200 million in private investment reported. PJM queue request AF2-415 (Bergen 138 kV, listed under developer Juno Power Management LLC, Hudson County) was published in a 2024-05-13 impact study; no construction or commercial operation date has been established.

Associated British Foods confirmed Eoin Tonge, its finance director who had run Primark on an interim basis since Paul Marchant's March 2025 exit, as the retailer's permanent chief executive, alongside a new chief commercial officer role.

On 5 March 2026 Intercontinental Exchange announced a strategic relationship and investment in the crypto exchange OKX, valuing it at US$25 billion, with a board seat, US-regulated crypto futures and OKX access to NYSE tokenized equities planned.

BYD unveiled its second-generation Blade Battery and FLASH Charging in Shenzhen on 5 March 2026, charging 10-70% in five minutes and 10-97% in nine, with 20,000 flash stations planned in China by end-2026.

1 Hotels opened the 211-room 1 Hotel Tokyo on 5 March 2026 on floors 38 to 43 of Akasaka Trust Tower, its first property in Japan, developed with Mori Trust.

Boyd Gaming brought down the 16-story Eastside Cannery tower at 2 a.m., six years after the locals casino closed for the pandemic and never reopened; the site is being sold for housing.