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The Delaware Supreme Court reversed the Court of Chancery's cancellation of Elon Musk's 2018 Tesla stock-option award, worth about $56 billion, awarding the shareholder plaintiff $1 in nominal damages and cutting his lawyers' fee.

On 19 December 2025 Rocket Lab announced a prime contract from the US Space Development Agency worth US$816 million to build 18 Tracking Layer Tranche 3 satellites, its largest contract to date.

The Kaiju No. 8 anime will adapt the manga's ending in a Final Chapter, announced with a teaser promo on the franchise's Jump Festa 2026 stage.

MAPPA's follow-up to the Reze Arc film was unveiled at Jump Festa '26, confirming that Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man would continue on screen with an adaptation of the manga's Assassins arc.

Bones Film's adaptation of Kei Urana's grimy fantasy Gachiakuta was renewed for a second season the moment its first season's finale finished airing.

On 22 December 2025 the US FDA approved the once-daily Wegovy pill (oral semaglutide 25 mg), the first oral GLP-1 for weight management, which showed 16.6% mean weight loss in the OASIS 4 trial.

The FDA approved Abbott's Volt pulsed field ablation system, a balloon-in-basket catheter that maps, paces and ablates, to treat paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation. The approval rested on the 392-patient VOLT-AF IDE study at 40 centers.

The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued an emergency special permit for segments 324 and 325 of the interstate Santa Ynez Pipeline System, approving Sable Offshore's enhanced integrity management practices and setting operational conditions. It is a step toward restarting the onshore transportation that has kept Sable's restarted Santa Ynez Unit oil in storage rather than on sale.

Alo removes the paywall from its Alo Wellness Club app, formerly the $12-a-month Alo Moves, opening its full library of classes and programmes free to members of its Alo Access loyalty programme.

Groq announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Nvidia for its inference technology. Founder Jonathan Ross and president Sunny Madra, along with other team members, moved to Nvidia, while Groq said it would keep operating independently and GroqCloud would continue. Groq did not disclose terms; CNBC reported about $20 billion.

Built on flattened hills and stabilised mangrove swamp across the harbour from central Mumbai, Adani Group's Navi Mumbai International Airport began commercial flights on Christmas Day 2025.

Taoyuan International Airport opened the north concourse of its new Terminal 3 on 25 December 2025, the first part of the project, with the main building due for completion by the end of 2027.

On 26 December 2025 PUB said it would run a roughly 10-month feasibility study for a new desalination plant, possibly a multi-storey, dual-mode seawater and freshwater design like Marina East, and later appointed Jacobs to carry it out.

A-Lin achieved the #1 music ranking of 2026 on Taiwan's KKBOX Mandarin Yearly Cumulative Singles Chart. KKBOX's Mandarin yearly cumulative singles chart ranked "幸福在歌唱 (Happiness Is Singing)" by A-Lin No. 1 for the period 2025-12-31 to 2026-10-15. The 2026 chart is still accumulating (period runs to 2026-10-15), so this is the leader to date, not a final year-end result.

Pure Arts' Beyond Time's Gaze begins release, a Chinese donghua following Xu Qing, the sole survivor of the ruined Nanhuang Continent, as a mysterious purple crystal starts him on a cultivation journey and into the Thunder Squad's ranks.

Founder Chip Wilson nominates three directors - ex-On co-CEO Marc Maurer, ex-ESPN marketing chief Laura Gentile and ex-Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg - for the 2026 annual meeting and proposes declassifying Lululemon's board.

China's Eastern Theater Command sent ground, naval, air and rocket forces to encircle Taiwan in two days of blockade and live-fire drills, its eighth major exercise around the island since 2022, after a US arms sale worth over $11 billion.

The integrated transport hub at the Beijing City Sub-centre, under Tongyun Subdistrict in Tongzhou District, took its first passengers on the Beijing-Tangshan and Beijing-Binhai intercity railways, with an interchange to Subway Line 6 at Beiyunhedong. Construction of the hub started on 30 November 2019.

Saks Global failed to make a bond interest payment of more than $100 million that was due on 30 December 2025, entering a grace period while it negotiated with creditors, just under five months after its last debt restructuring.