Xbox announces what sounds like a generative AI-focused game-making department, Xbox Labs, while avoiding mentioning AI

Xbox is reacting - uncharacteristically quickly - to the deluge of vibe-coded game ports, decompiles and recompiles we've been seeing online in recent weeks by establishing Xbox Labs, a new initiative seemingly designed to explore the phenomenon. Xbox Labs was announced by CEO Asha Sharma in a message sent to staff and published on Xbox Wire . The initiative is led by Xbox chief technical officer (CTO) Scott Van Vliet, who previously led Azure for OpenAI at Microsoft. So what is Xbox Labs?