Litecoin does experience surge in price but there is nothing behind the surge which the coin had early this year and the current surge in price of the was because of the lightning network and the new core version which was implemented by the team involved. With that been said, I wont trust much in litecoin surge or believe what the article says if I were you.
If that surges very fast, I think there's a hype behind litecoin and that's not worthy to become believable to boost bitcoin price as well. Probably those so called improvements mentioned here could do those awesome things with bitcoin, and as its going to be implemented soon the trust will be built from the people behind it. Trusting your litecoin is great idea, but not to the fullest because it's always good to be clever rather than being a failure after all. Have some other alternatives with other promising crypto, so that you won't be focused on only one asset.