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Last week we said the Pocket 4 Pro's pricing silence had become a forfeit; this week it broke — but the launch routes around the US, not toward it. DJI answered on the two fronts it's allowed to win, shipping its flagship pocket camera worldwide and publishing a first-responder playbook for American police, while the doors Washington shut stayed shut. Five stories, in priority order, with our take on each.
Last week we said the Pocket 4 Pro's pricing silence had become a forfeit; this week it broke — but the launch routes around the US, not toward it. DJI answered on the two fronts it's allowed to win, shipping its flagship pocket camera worldwide and publishing a first-responder playbook for American police, while the doors Washington shut stayed shut. Five stories, in priority order, with our take on each.
Last week we predicted the jump from civil fines to a criminal charge; this week it landed — and a DJI Mini 3 Pro is now named in a federal charging document, as World Cup seizures climbed into the dozens. In Washington, the FCC opened a re-entry lane for foreign drones that excludes DJI by name, while DJI itself spent the week shipping enterprise gear into the exact segment the ban is premised on. Five stories, in priority order, with our take on each.
Last week we said the World Cup's first drone seizure was almost certain; this week the FBI delivered it — nine drones confiscated and seven operators fined in opening weekend. Meanwhile DJI's US pipeline slid from stalled to shut: the Air 4's FCC deadline passed with no filing, the Pocket 4 Pro hit week five of pricing silence, and DJI's own court filing means no legal relief before November. Five stories, in priority order, with our take on each.
This was the week the airspace closed while the product pipeline stayed shut. World Cup drone TFRs went live June 1 — including 100+ surprise no-fly bubbles in cities hundreds of miles from any match — while every DJI product thread stalled: no Pocket 4P price, no Osmo 360 II launch, no Air 4 FCC filing. Five stories, in priority order, with our take on each.
This was the week DJI fought back with evidence. An independent US cybersecurity firm bought DJI gear off the shelf, tested it for five months, and found nothing; the FCC comment docket crossed 3,000; and the FAA turned 11 World Cup stadiums into no-drone zones with FBI seizure authority. Five stories — in priority order, with our take on each.
This was the week the FCC fight stopped being only about DJI. Autel filed a reply that publicly broke ranks, Michigan's 15-bill state-drone-ban package collapsed in committee, and DJI quietly engineered the Air 4 into a sub-250g class that sidesteps the FCC pathway entirely. Six stories — in priority order, with our take on each.
DJI used two weeks to anoint the Pocket 4P as a cinema product at Cannes rather than a consumer product at its own event, absorb a fourth US-block casualty with Osmo Mobile 8P, watch the FCC fight enter its most adversarial phase, and collect NAB hardware that validates the pivot. Here's what happened — in priority order, with our take on each.
DJI made more news in seven days than most companies make in a quarter. A new product launched (and got blocked from US sale, again). A major event got teased. The FCC fight escalated to a $1.56 billion court filing. And DJI's home market joined the regulatory pile-on. Here's what happened, in priority order, with our take on each.
DJI's 'Wonders in Your Palm' event happened on May 7, 2026, and the star was the Osmo Mobile 8P smartphone gimbal — built around a detachable FrameTap remote with its own touchscreen, ActiveTrack 8.0, and Apple DockKit support. It launched globally from EUR 159 but, for the second Osmo Mobile launch running, skipped the US over the FCC ban. Here's the full recap of what DJI actually unveiled.