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Starting on August 21—so, now—the price of Apple TV will rise to $12.99 a month, a steep $3 a month higher than the previous $9.99/month rate. That's a 30-percent price hike, folks.
Existing Apple TV subscribers on the monthly plan will see their rates go up following their next renewal date.
The last time Apple raised its Apple TV prices was back in October 2023, when the service went from $6.99 a month to $9.99/month, an even steeper 43-percent price hike than the latest increase.
Apple TV cost a mere $4.99 a month when it debuted back in launched back in 2019.
In a statement announcing the price increase, Apple focused on Apple TV 's recent streak of popular shows and movies—"all ad-free," it added, as Variety reports.
Indeed, Apple TV remains the lone holdout among the big streaming services by not offering an ad-supported tier, although there's long been chatter that Apple was tinkering with the idea.
After a slow start, Apple TV has cranked out a steady stream of hits, with one show—Severance—hitting a grand slam in terms of viewership and cultural buzz.
Seth Rogan's The Studio also drew plenty of eyeballs as well as
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In July, Mistral, which publishes its own AI models, published a self-evaluation of the environmental impact of training and querying its model in terms of the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) produced, the amount of water consumed, and the amount of material consumed. Google took a slightly different approach, publishing the amount of power and water a Gemini query consumes, as well as how much CO2 it produces.
Of course, there are caveats: Each report was self-generated, and not performed by an outside auditor. Also, training a model consumes vastly more resources than inferencing, or the day-to-day tasks users assign a chatbot each time they query it. Still, the reports provide some context for how much AI taxes the environment, even though they exclude the effects of AI training and inferencing by OpenAI and other competitors.
On Thursday, Google said its estimate for the resources consumed by a "median" Gemini query consumes 0.24Wh of energy and 0.26 milliliters (five drops) of water, and generates the equivalent of 0.03 grams of carbon dioxide — the equivalent of 9 seconds of watching TV. Mistral's report slightly differed: For a "Le Chat" response generating a page of text (400 tokens), Mistral consumes 50 milliliters of water, produces the equivalent of 1.14 grams of carbon dioxide, and consumes the equivalent of 0.2 milligrams of non-renewable resources.
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