Microsoft’s new gaming CEO vows not to flood the ecosystem with ‘endless AI slop’
In Brief Posted: 9:41 AM PST · February 21, 2026 Image Credits:Tomohiro Ohsumi / Getty Images Anthony Ha Microsoft’s new gaming CEO vows not to flood the ecosystem with ‘endless AI slop’ Microsoft announced a major gaming shakeup on Friday, with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer departing the company, along with Xbox President Sarah Bond. Spencer will be replaced by former Instacart and Meta executive Asha Sharma. With Sharma’s most recent role as the president of Microsoft’s CoreAI product, these moves suggest that Microsoft might be doubling down on bringing AI into video games. The company had already been experimenting with ways to combine AI and gaming, for example developing an AI gaming companion and releasing a buggy, AI-generated level from…
