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Helen Chiang

Chief operating officer, Xbox

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Microsoft cuts Xbox jobs and sells off game studios to fund AI

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Appointed Xbox COO on July 6, 2026

Microsoft cut about 4,800 jobs on Monday, most of them in its Xbox gaming division. It also let go of four studios it had spent years buying: Compulsion Games, Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs.

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