Apple redrew its interface and EchoStar escalated to the Oval Office this week. At WWDC on June 9, Apple unveiled iOS 26 with its Liquid Glass design language, the deepest visual overhaul of the iPhone in over a decade, alongside expanded Apple Intelligence features and eSIM-forward platform changes. Two days later, EchoStar chairman Charlie Ergen took his FCC standoff to the top, meeting President Trump on June 12, with FCC Chairman Brendan Carr joining by phone, as the company sought relief from the spectrum review that has frozen its finances. Around the meeting, a broad coalition of industry stakeholders warned the FCC that unwinding EchoStar's licenses would chill investment across the entire spectrum market.
Apple finally showed its AI hand: Apple Intelligence, a system-wide layer across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with ChatGPT integrated into Siri and a hard hardware floor — most of it requires an iPhone 15 Pro or newer. In one keynote, Apple turned AI from a feature race into an upgrade-cycle engine aimed at hundreds of millions of aging handsets. Elon Musk responded by threatening to ban Apple devices from his companies, and Broadcom — the quiet giant whose silicon sits inside iPhones and data centers alike — beat earnings, announced a 10-for-1 split, and rode AI networking revenue to record levels.