{"id":1008949,"date":"2026-05-21T11:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008949"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:35:37","slug":"bait-and-switch-google-faces-massive-backlash-for-quietly-reducing-usage-limits-on-its-ai-pro-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/21\/bait-and-switch-google-faces-massive-backlash-for-quietly-reducing-usage-limits-on-its-ai-pro-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bait and switch\u2019: Google faces massive backlash for quietly reducing usage limits on its AI Pro plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google unveiled a number of big AI updates at the company&#8217;s I\/O 2026 developer conference on Monday, including Gemini Spark agent platform, Antigravity 2.0, Gemini Omni world model and Gemini 3.5 Flash, among others.<\/p>\n<p>However, the company also quietly made changes to its Google AI plans, with the top-end AI Ultra plan getting a $50 discount and now starting at $200, while a new Google AI Ultra tier has been introduced at $100 per month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google unveiled a number of big AI updates at the company&#8217;s I\/O 2026 developer conference on Monday, including Gemini Spark agent platform, Antigravity 2.0, Gemini Omni world model and Gemini 3.5 Flash, among others. However, the company also quietly made changes to its Google AI plans, with the top-end AI Ultra plan getting a $50 discount and now starting at $200, while a new Google AI Ultra tier has been introduced at $100 per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008950,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008949\/revisions\/1008950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}