Dr. ChatGPT Isn’t Quite There Yet

Spring is here, and there's a whole new way to chai at Starbucks that's made perfect for you. Choose your sweetness, dial it up, or keep things light. Add a touch of pistachio, a hint of strawberry, or vanilla, or make it a spring classic with lavender. Because this season, there's endless ways to chai at Starbucks. Welcome to the tech brew ride Home for Thursday, 03/05/2026. I'm Brian McCullough. Today is the long war between Google and Epic Games finally over? OpenAI wants you to know its revenue numbers are also stellar. Maybe chat GPD isn't so great at medical advice. Maybe the chip shortage isn't great for Nintendo specifically and maybe the MacBook Nano isn't great for the Windows ecosystem generally. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Is this whole saga finally at an end? Google has announced an Android App Store program and lowered developer fees to resolve Epic's antitrust litigation and also comply with new rules in Europe and elsewhere, quoting Bloomberg. These announcements are not about just doing what's required, Sameer Samat, Google's vice president of product development, said in an interview with Bloomberg News. The moves go, quote, well beyond what is being required by legal changes in Europe and The UK, he said. Under the proposal, other companies can register with Google, pay a one time fee, and offer an app store on Android, Samat said. Google will also lower the fees it charges developers from a standard 30% to as low as 15 or 10% on recurring subscriptions, he said. Fee changes in The US, UK, and EU are expected to go into effect by June with changes in Australia, Korea, and Japan before the 2026. Epic Games, which had been involved in a long running antitrust case with Google, said the new policies would eliminate the Fortnite maker's concerns with the Android platform and resolve litigation in The US, UK, Australia, and elsewhere. Anybody can launch a competitive app store now, Epic chief executive officer Tim Sweeney said in a joint interview with Samat. Alphabet doesn't offer stand alone figures for how much revenue is attributable to its Android operating system or the Google Play Store. Documents from The US litigation with Epic indicated the technology giant's App Store brought in $14,660,000,000 in sales in 2020. Analysts had estimated that changes to its app store required by new regulations and the litigation could result in a $1,000,000,000 loss in gross profit, end quote. Funny little addendum to that though, quoting The Verge. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney might be one of the most outspoken people in the history of the world. He fought two of the world's most valuable and powerful companies almost all the way to the US Supreme Court, insulting them again and again, crooked, deceitful, insanely sneaky, calling Android a fake open platform, calling both companies gangster style businesses that will do anything they think they can get away with, telling me how Google's Project …