Tom Warren

Jay Parikh, who built Meta’s engineering culture when it was Facebook, is joining Microsoft. Parikh will report directly to CEO Satya Nadella and join Microsoft’s senior leadership team. In a memo to staff, Nadella says Parikh’s expertise will “bring valuable perspective to Microsoft.” It’s not clear what Parikh’s official title will be, nor what he’s directly working on. I’m sure it’ll have something to do with AI, though.

Activision says Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 set new day one and opening weekend records, making it the biggest Call of Duty three-day opening weekend ever. It also had the highest total PC players during opening weekend in franchise history. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says “unit sales on PlayStation and Steam were also up over 60 percent year-over-year.”