Microsoft might say its top priority right now is security, but it’s been clear for months that AI is just as important. The odd division out has been Xbox, which hasn’t discussed its use of AI much in public. But that changed last week when Microsoft ripped the band-aid off and waded, somewhat clumsily, into the debate over AI in gaming.

Microsoft (MSFT) will publish a blog post today asking the Trump administration to loosen and simplify a planned new system that would limit the access of the latest American AI chips in most of the world,

The software firm says allies are also being hurt by the curbs under the current system, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.