Apple faced pressure from the White House to use Intel's chipmaking plants while it was negotiating relief from semiconductor tariffs last summer, reports The Wall Street Journal ($). In August 2025, Apple CEO Tim Cook was in Washington to lobby the Trump administration to drop its proposed 100 percent tariff on semiconductor imports – a levy that would have raised costs across Apple's product line.

Verizon is reportedly near a deal to buy fiber provider Frontier Communications. An announcement could come as early as this week, provided discussions don’t “hit any last-minute snags.”