The Case of the Missing Word

Inspector Hale: Xbox opens a lab for fan-rebuilt games. Wren: the boss who promised no AI slop in February? The Ledger: her memo never says AI, not once; 3,200 jobs cut, a fifth of Xbox, 268 of them in the studios last month. Wren: the fan ports use AI models; the memo doesn't say so. Nightjar: she never said the word. Wren: the lab is small; the cuts aren't.

The Xbox boss who pledged in February not to flood the ecosystem with 'soulless AI slop', pulled Gaming Copilot in May, and is cutting about 3,200 jobs, roughly a fifth of Xbox, has now set up a lab around fan ports that use AI models, in a memo that never uses the word AI.

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Inspector HaleWrenThe LedgerNightjar