#279 | Xbox Overhauls The System... - New Leadership + Copilot Is GONE!

#279 | Xbox Overhauls The System... - New Leadership + Copilot Is GONE!

From Defining Duke: An Xbox Podcast by Last Stand Media & Studio71

May 10, 2026 · 4h 2m · Episode 279

About this episode

The episode discusses recent changes in Xbox leadership, the discontinuation of Copilot, and various gaming news updates.

It appears that Xbox got sick of the whole weekly negative news cycle schtick and has decided to go in the other direction. Is this week's news truly all that positive? I sincerely depends on how you look at it and nobody will actually know until much later. Asha Sharma has made new additions to her leadership team. Sarah Bond's former team has been replaced by alumni of Meta, Instacart, and CoreAI which all happen to be people that worked with Asha at the same time she led those respective companies. Is this the invasion of AI into Xbox as we initially feared? We get into that, but there's almost zero doubt that Xbox anticipated this because they pulled out quite the plot twist. Copilot for console and mobile is stopped, effective immediately. So, while there is more AI focused leadership than ever in Xbox, they also just axed one of the worst things the brand started rolling out last year. How do the Dukes feel about all of this? Well, that's why you're here, no? Pull up a chair, relax, and let's talk about Xbox some more before Brad returns and ruins it all.Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad…

People in this episode

Host: Duke

Topics covered

  • Xbox leadership changes
  • AI in gaming
  • Copilot discontinuation
  • Xbox news
  • GameStop acquisition
  • Steam Machine pre-orders

Keywords

  • Xbox
  • Asha Sharma
  • AI
  • Copilot
  • GameStop
  • Steam Machine
  • Jez Corden
  • gaming news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Meta, Instacart, CoreAI, GameStop, eBay, Steam Machine

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