Meta announced on December 30, 2025, that it had acquired Butterfly Effect, the company behind the AI application, Manus. Compared to nearly two years ago, when ByteDance attempted to acquire Manus for US$30 million but was rejected, Meta has now brought Manus into its fold at a price that has reportedly surpassed several billion dollars.

The PCB industry is making large upgrades. The largest beneficiaries of the AI boom are IC substrate makers that are part of the advanced chip packaging supply chain, such as Unimicron and Kinsus, which have gradually emerged from the oversupply bottleneck caused by large-scale post-pandemic capacity expansion. The surge in orders has spread to multiple networking and server PCB manufacturers, including Gold Circuit Electronics (CGE), Allied Circuit Co. (ACCL), and First Hi-tec, driving double-digit year-over-year growth in Taiwan’s PCB manufacturing output value in 2025.

BYD has met its 2025 electric vehicle sales target and is on track to surpass Tesla as the world’s largest pure battery electric vehicle (BEV) maker for the full year, according to reports from Nikkei Asia and Bloomberg.