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AI Daily Brief — 13 August 2025

A dense Wednesday. Gurman dropped Apple’s AI comeback plan. Altman doubled rate limits and added a mode picker. Perplexity opened Comet. Anthropic kicked off Sonnet 3.5 deprecation clock.

Top stories

  • Apple AI comeback plan: tabletop robot for 2027. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple plotting 2027 tabletop robot (7-inch display on motorized arm that swivels to follow users), 2026 smart-home hub, home-security cameras, more conversational lifelike Siri with visual avatar. All on new OS codenamed “Charismatic”, borrowing from tvOS/watchOS. via Bloomberg
  • Altman doubles GPT-5 Plus rate limits + boosts Thinking to 3,000 msg/week. Plus rate limits to 160 msg/3 hours. GPT-5 Thinking from 200 to 3,000 messages/week. Promises “warmer” and “less annoying” personality after widespread complaints. via Altman on X
  • OpenAI rolls out Auto/Fast/Thinking mode picker. Three-way mode selector in ChatGPT — Auto, Fast, Thinking — so users can choose GPT-5 behavior per query. Restored legacy o3 and GPT-4.1 access for paying users. via TechRadar
  • Perplexity opens Comet AI browser to all $20/mo Pro subscribers. Expanded access beyond $200/mo Max tier and previous limited Pro waitlist. Significant step in broader rollout (fully free worldwide in October). via TechRepublic
  • Anthropic notifies developers of Claude Sonnet 3.5 deprecation. Both Sonnet 3.5 versions (claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620 and claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022) to be retired — mandatory 60-day deprecation window. Full retirement Oct 22. via Anthropic Docs

Who shipped

Apple shipped a leaked roadmap. OpenAI shipped a mode picker. Perplexity shipped wider Comet access. Anthropic shipped a deprecation notice.

Open-source pulse

Engadget, MacRumors, SiliconANGLE all picked up Apple tabletop robot story same day — prototype’s 7-inch horizontal display and motorized arm’s ~6-inch range of motion in any direction. MacRumors confirmed 2027 target as “robot virtual companion”.

Money, infra & hardware

GPT-5 GA on Azure AI Foundry from Aug 7 still in active enterprise rollout — deployment choices for Global vs Data Zone (US/EU) data residency. GPT-5 mini and 272K context window broadly available to Foundry developers by mid-month. METR published research update on autonomous agent time-horizon evaluation. via METR

Quiet corners

Google “Nano Banana” continued shaking up image-edit leaderboards on LMArena — still anonymous, immediately topped the leaderboard since Aug 12. Decrypt, Tom’s Guide, Decoder, Windows Central ran “botched” GPT-5 stories framing rollout backlash as dominant AI news cycle of the week. via Decrypt

By the numbers

  • 7-inch / ~6-inch / 2027 — Apple tabletop robot display / motorized arm range / target year
  • 160 / 3,000 — new Plus / Thinking rate limits
  • Auto/Fast/Thinking — three GPT-5 mode picker options
  • 60 days / Oct 22 — Sonnet 3.5 deprecation window / full retirement
  • $20/mo — Perplexity Pro tier (now with Comet)

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 13 August 2025.