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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma reshuffles leadership, brings CoreAI talent

techMay 5, 2026182,821

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma reshuffled parts of Xbox leadership, bringing in executives from Microsoft's CoreAI group and from teams she led previously to accelerate platform work. At a Redmond town hall, Sharma said Xbox 'does not spend enough time with developers and play' and declared, 'We need to evolve how we work.' She installed more technical leaders on the Xbox platform team to drive platform changes intended to address sinking game sales. Increasing CoreAI and platform engineering focus could change developer tools, cloud-based play features, and how games are updated and delivered on Xbox.

Wario64
@wario64.bsky.social

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma - "We will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console."

21343d ago
𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙤 「レボ」231

how about winding down copilot in general, no one wants that shit

Craig Blair133

Good. Forced “AI” integration sucks so much.

Mark Shatraw62

They were putting Copilot on console? I would rather have my kettle write me a haiku when I'm having sencha

fleetingveil.bsky.social44

Seems to me between the Game Pass pricing pivot and now Copilot, Asha actually took time to listen to feedback and is making smart changes. Keep it up.

blakersz.bsky.social14

Honestly this is the opposite of what I was expecting when she took the position, given what her role in Microsoft was before. Good news.

yeaitsme1015.bsky.social11

I didn't even realize that was on console lol

DragonHolley10

So far, she's doing a good job

PigeonFish6

Ok Xbox...I still haven't decided to give you money again, BUT you at least have my attention for now. Next tell me you're expanding backward compatibility again and we'll talk.

Octavious Night6

I pray for the downfall of Copilot and everything else like it

Pragmatic Sliver4

Now tell the people in the Windows buildings across campus to do the same... 🙄

Think. It. Through.4

I can’t wait for @edzitron.com to give us the smiling face.

elvancho.bsky.social4

My biggest issue with AI is no choice. If it has to be forced on everything then that tells me I don't want it. This is a good move. Honestly confused because MS doesn't do that often anymore.

Sageoftruth4

They're nice promises, but it Xbox taught me one thing, it's not to celebrate until I see some actual change.

Ink 🐻💾3

Good change and I'm all for it - but I'm baffled by the constant back and forth. Wasnt long ago (month?) when they were like "copilot for xbox coming!!1". But.. I shouldnt complain in this case since wins a win. Just hoping next week its not different again 🙃

Steve Will Shan2

Get it the eff outta MS Paint next -_- (won't even let me make a section box without trying to fill it with some ai nonsense).

Master1672

What does CoPilot on console even mean?

Goofierbrute2

Well great! Now what Xbox exclusives are there to be excited about now?!

Ajay Kundlas2

Okay, now THIS is actually a big change I can appreciate. Thanks for not wasting money.

BELLAIR 🎮 [+..••] 👾2

now that's a good first step

Kris Wolfheart
@kriswolfhe.art

Asha Sharma has been head of xbox for like 2 months and she's already conclusively proven that Phil Spencer must have just been sitting in his office jerking off all day that man was NOT working

3763d ago
Kris Wolfheart129

You notice how she keeps saying things, and then actually doing them? A shocking paradigm shift for xbox leadership

Devil May Carl15

Honestly quite funny how the former AI CEO is the one reeling back all the AI shit that Phil allowed to creep in

Tukenfarben14

Jim "Do Everything Wrong" Ryan vs Phil "Don't Nothing At All" Spencer This is the legacy of the true console war.

chimaera24.bsky.social9

There's a reason every time Xbox laid people off people would look up his playtimes on Destiny 2 and Fallout 76, dude just played games at the office

Venturi3

based tbh. Dude was living the dream

AmericanTruckSongs10
@ethangach.bsky.social

New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced today that this initiative is dead. Haiyan Zhang, who presented it at GDC 2026, left Microsoft shortly after following 13 years at the company. kotaku.com/xbox-copilot...

683d ago
Tom Warren
@tomwarren.co.uk

big changes at Xbox today. Asha Sharma is bringing in more technical expertise and shaking up the Xbox platform teams, after the departure of Sarah Bond. Full details here 👇 www.theverge.com/news/923908/...

653d ago
Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷
@toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk

Xbox head Asha Sharma has said that development of Copilot for console is stopping. It's a promising sign - along with everything else she's been saying - that her plan is to refocus on core products, consoles, and games, despite today's CoreAI exec hires.

243d ago
Kotaku
@kotaku.com

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says the company is killing off features that "don't align with where we're headed." The first of those is Copilot AI for Xbox. https://kotaku.com/microsoft-kills-the-copilot-ai-for-xbox-nobody-wanted-2000693358

263d ago
Idle Sloth
@idlesloth.bsky.social

Asha Sharma has overhauled parts of the Xbox leadership team “Right now, it is too hard to ship impact quickly. We spend too much time inward instead of with the community, and we lack the depth we need in some of the fundamentals” via: CNBC cnbc.com/2026/05/05/mic…

193d ago
Idle Sloth2

Xbox is “bringing in new leaders with consumer and technical expertise we do not yet have,” she wrote in the memo. Four of those leaders are coming from the CoreAI group, overlapping with Sharma. via CNBC cnbc.com/2026/05/05/mic…

Paul2

That sounds like corporate nonsense speak. Shipping impact?

PC Gamer
@pcgamer.com

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who came into the role in February after spending two years as president of Microsoft's CoreAI Product division, has tapped at least four of her former CoreAI fellows for key roles in Xbox leadership.

183d ago
Knoebel
@knoebel.bsky.social

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma overhauls rhe leadership team. She brings in four people from CoreAl engineering group where she worked before, along with a director at her previous company, Instacart. [1/2] www.cnbc.com/2026/05/05/m...

173d ago
IGN
@ign.com

Newly-installed Xbox boss Asha Sharma has announced a major reshuffle of the company's platform technology teams, as Microsoft's gaming division seeks to rebuild its position and release Project Helix... https://bit.ly/4f4qAFf

173d ago
Jay Peters
@jaypeters.net

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says the company is “winding down Copilot on mobile” and “will stop development of Copilot on console.” Another big announcement from the new boss of Xbox: www.theverge.com/games/924551...

113d ago
DayOne
@playday.one

Asha Sharma took to social media today to announce that Copilot for Gaming is being canceled on Xbox consoles and the Xbox mobile app, following earlier reports of leadership changes within the company. playday.one/2026/05/05/a...

93d ago
Mark Shatraw
@markshatraw.bsky.social

I mean, if I'm Asha Sharma, 1. the next Xbox is *already* a PC that will have Copilot 2. free PR win 3. you can just move those people over to something useful

113d ago
Pure Xbox
@purexbox.com

'We Need To Evolve How We Work' - Xbox CEO Announces She's Bringing In New Leaders.

73d ago
Weyland - ttv/weyland_here
@weyland.live

Happy to have seemingly been wrong about Asha Sharma being a poor fit for Xbox (sorry, I just don't think an AI exec with seemingly zero consumer product experience should be in charge of an art-as-product company). But good work the last few months from her. So hey, I was wrong. Good.

83d ago
3 sources
cnbc.comMicrosoft Xbox CEO overhauls leadership amid sinking sales: 'We need to evolve how we work'cnb.cxMicrosoft Xbox CEO overhauls leadership amid sinking sales: 'We need to evolve how we work'replaye.comMicrosoft Xbox CEO overhauls leadership amid sinking sales: 'We need to evolve how we work' - Replaye

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