Original report comes from the paywalled The Information, that they tried to sell to private equity for $100B-$150B, but that it was short lived and fell through. This backs what a lot of us have been thinking based on the moves Sharma has been making, that they track with a sell-off of the Xbox brand.
Yeah, it looked like MS was going to sell off or somehow get rid of Xbox.
they have to justify keeping thier AI slop generator/development afloat somehow.