For the past few years, the AI industry has operated under its own version of Moore's Law: an unwavering belief that the cost of intelligence would perpetually decrease by orders of magnitude each year. Like clockwork, each new model generation promised to be not only more capable but also cheaper to run. Last week, Google quietly broke that trend.In a move that at first went unnoticed, Google significantly increased the price of its popular Gemini 2.5 Flash model. The input token price doubled ...