The answer is... maybe!

SCOTUS heard arguments today on a doctrine known as “Chevron deference,” which gives agencies leeway to interpret ambiguous laws. Conservative justices are skeptical of it. If they do overturn or weaken it later this year, it’ll give courts more ability to shut down policies from the EPA, FCC, and other agency rule-making.

Google is adding AI image generation to Bard tomorrow, according to developer Dylan Roussel, who shared a screenshot of a changelog dated for tomorrow.

Roussel says it will use Imagen, Google’s text-to-image model, shown in a video of an earlier iteration.

She won’t stand for re-election to the board this May, she said in a post on Facebook, though she will serve as an “advisor.”

“Serving as Facebook’s — and then Meta’s — COO for 14 ½ years and a board member for 12 years has been the opportunity of a lifetime,” Sandberg writes. “I will always be grateful to Mark for believing in me and for his partnership and friendship.”

Sandberg stepped down as COO in 2022.

Remember the a capella group that did the scary-good Windows and iPhone sound effects? They... never stopped, and somehow I’m just learning about it today.

Here are MayTree’s incredible renditions of Street Fighter II, Sonic the Hedgehog, PS1-PS4 startup sounds, Animal Crossing, a Persona 5 vid from just a few weeks ago... heck, here’s their entire “game & effect” YouTube playlist. I am now a subscriber.

Customers in a handful of states have been able to lease the R1T electric truck since last November. Now the R1S SUV is getting in on the action. Prices depend on the trim and motor configuration. For example, a quad-motor R1S with the large battery pack can be had for $1,157 a month, excluding taxes and fees.

And while customers who buy the R1S can only get half of the $7,500 EV tax credit in the US, those who lease the SUV get access to the whole credit.

The Scholarly Press Backlist Revival will put out-of-print academic monographs online for free under deals with publishers like MIT Press, hoping to fix a “black hole in the cultural and scholarly record.” If it works out, it seems like a great option for a swathe of copyrighted works that aren’t seen as profitable to sell — but shouldn’t be locked away because of it.

Nearly four years ago, Atari announced a licensing deal that would allow a company called GSD Group to build Atari-themed hotels with “immersive” VR / AR experiences and esports venues — and we haven’t heard much since.

But now the Las Vegas Review-Journal says Atari Hotel is “in talks with land partners for potential Las Vegas sites” and that a “series of project announcements” is coming in the first half of this year. I’m looking forward to seeing if the brand can follow through on all of its lofty promises.

With the arrival of the Galaxy S24 series, Samsung’s Galaxy S23 now starts at $699 in the US instead of $799. That makes it $100 cheaper than the standard Galaxy S24. (Note, however, that the new S23 price has yet to show up on Samsung’s site.)

Its software and security update policy isn’t as impressive as the S24’s, but the Galaxy S23 still has hardware specs comparable to the newest gen. It’ll also get all of S24’s AI-powered features later this year.

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Politico Pro paid subscribers will now see “thousands more Federal bill summaries” generated by AI. The new Legislative Compass feature delivers both brief and in-depth bill summaries of federal bills, which Politico says should help public policy professionals respond to legislative changes faster.

The news comes after Politico’s parent company, Axel Springer, and OpenAI announced a partnership in December. As a part of the deal, Axel Springer can build with OpenAI’s technology while ChatGPT can share content from its publications.

While the new Alexa voice technology (dubbed “Remarkable Alexa”) is supposedly scheduled for a June 30th launch, a report from Business Insider cites sources who say early testing with 15,000 customers has not gone well.

Apparently, Alexa is “often giving unnecessarily long or inaccurate responses.” I am all for a smarter Alexa, but a hallucinating Alexa could be downright dangerous.

Amazon showed off some of what it planned for Alexa and generative AI at its hardware event last fall, where Dave Limp hinted it might come with a price tag.

The price of running generative AI is high, so it’s not surprising Samsung and Google have teamed up to power the new features in Galaxy S24 phones.

This is the first use deploying Gemini Pro on Vertex AI to customers, for summarization in Notes, Voice Recorder, and Keyboard. It’s also using Imagen 2 for Generative Edit on photos, as well as Gemini Ultra for complex tasks and, like the Pixel 8 Pro, Gemini Nano as an on-device LLM.

Google’s in-car assistant app is getting a generative AI boost — it will soon be able to summarize texts while you’re on the road and suggest relevant replies and actions.

In the video below, Android Auto summarizes a text from a woman who is asking the driver if they want Thai food for dinner. The new features debuted at today’s Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event.

I say “technically” because while the feature will finally be on phones updated to 17.3, we still don’t know what hotels and hotel groups will actually support it.

When Apple originally announced the feature last year IHG Hotel and Resorts confirmed it would be coming to their properties, which includes the Holiday Inn, Kimpton, and Intercontinental brands. We haven’t heard much since.

Hopefully that changes soon.

The company’s multisearch feature already lets you search with images and text with Lens, but these new AI insights are supposed to take things a step further by letting you ask questions about the image you’re searching for.

As an example, Google says you can take a picture of a board game and type “how do you play this?” Lens will then offer up an AI-generated answer that gives you more information about the game. This feature is rolling out this week in the US on the Google app for Android and iOS.

Today Google and Samsung introduced Circle to Search, a new way of searching for information about something on your phone’s screen without switching apps.

I’ve been at The Verge long enough to remember Now on Tap — an Android feature that Google announced way back in 2015. The concept was very similar: hold down the home button, and Google would hunt for more details about whatever content was on your display at that moment.

They’re not identical, mind you. With the newer approach, you’re circling something to make your interest much more obvious. And AI smarts have (hopefully) come a long way compared to Now on Tap’s inconsistent performance.

Perplexity AI, a company that uses generative AI for search, will co-announce something it’s working on with Rabbit, the company behind the fast-selling Rabbit R1 AI not-a-phone gadget, tomorrow at 2PM PT / 5PM ET.

First up in the “Milestone Movies” collection are some films from 1974, including Blazing Saddles, The Great Gatsby, and Chinatown.

Movies from 1984, 1994, 2004 will come to Netflix in April, July, and October, respectively, Netflix says in a press release.

Netflix: probably a winner in 2024. Disney Plus: rough times ahead. Peacock? Paramount Plus? Will they even exist in 12 months? Alex Cranz and I get to the bottom of this year’s streaming wars, and also maybe talk E Ink a little. But first: you know that creepy sound on TikTok videos about the North Sea? We have a story for you about that.

If you’re one of those people who is off to a great start in 2024, on the way to accomplishing all of your goals, I have some bad news: the classic puzzle game Threes is on its way to PCs via Steam next month to consume all of your free time. Install at your own risk.