{"id":77313,"date":"2026-05-05T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77313"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:36:27","slug":"new-xbox-ceo-taps-more-ai-veterans-to-help-lead-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77313","title":{"rendered":"New Xbox CEO Taps More AI Veterans To Help Lead Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is installing a new group of leaders around her, and most of them, like Sharma, come from an AI background. In a memo to staff announcing the changes, Sharma said the Xbox teams needs to “evolve how we work and how we are organized.”<\/p>\n

CNBC<\/a>, which saw the memo, said Sharma added, “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.”<\/p>\n

To that end, Sharma announced that the Xbox team is “bringing in new leaders with consumer and technical expertise we do not yet have.”<\/p>\n

Four of these people are coming over to Xbox from Microsoft’s CoreAI group, which Sharma was a part of before becoming Xbox CEO in February. Jared Palmer, who was CoreAI’s vice president, is shifting to Xbox to join the technical team where he will work on product and engineering efforts. He will also contribute to matters of “taste,” Sharma said in her memo, though it is not clear what that means.<\/p>\n

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CoreAI’s vice president of design, Tim Allen, is joining the Xbox team to lead the design efforts, while former head<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is installing a new group of leaders around her, and most of them, like Sharma, come from an AI background. In a memo to staff announcing the changes, Sharma said the Xbox teams needs to “evolve how we work and how we are organized.” CNBC, which saw the memo, said Sharma…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":77315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77316,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77313\/revisions\/77316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}