Editor’s note (July 10th): Fidji Simo has stepped down(辞职，退出) from her full-time role at OpenAI(开发ChatGPT的人工智能公司) for health reasons.
编者按（7月10日）：菲吉·西蒙因健康原因辞去OpenAI的全职职务。
IT IS NOT yet the PayPal mafia(黑手党；有影响力的群体), but the Instacart matriarchy(母系社会；女性主导的群体) is making its mark(留下印记；崭露头角). Not long after Fidji Simo, ex-head of the online grocery store, became Sam Altman’s product-focused sidekick(助手；搭档) at OpenAI, Asha Sharma, Instacart’s former chief operating officer, became Satya Nadella’s Ms Fix-it at Microsoft Gaming. Groceries are a tricky, low-margin(低利润的) business. So is Xbox—and Ms Sharma has wasted no time(立即行动；不耽误时间) in getting to work. On July 6th, less than five months after becoming the division’s boss, she launched what she called the biggest reset(重置；重新调整) in its 25-year history.
虽然还比不上PayPal帮，但Instacart母系家族正在崭露头角。就在在线杂货店前负责人菲吉·西蒙成为萨姆·奥尔特曼在OpenAI的产品助手之后不久，Instacart前首席运营官阿莎·夏尔马成为了萨提亚·纳德拉在微软游戏部门的“修复女士”。杂货是一门棘手且低利润的生意。Xbox也是如此——夏尔马女士毫不拖延地投入了工作。7月6日，在成为该部门负责人不到五个月后，她发起了她所说的25年历史上最大的一次重置。
Ms Sharma has gone about her overhaul(全面检修；彻底改革) with a candour(坦率；真诚) that is rare in the mealy-mouthed(说话拐弯抹角的；不直率的) world of big tech. Declaring that Microsoft’s gaming arm is “not healthy”, she announced that 3,200 employees would be axed(裁掉（员工）；砍掉) over the next 12 months, and that up to five loss-making studios would be shed(剥离；去除). Her diagnosis makes two things clear: first, Mr Nadella’s gaming strategy has misfired(不奏效；失败) badly; second, the entire console industry is in a supply-chain crisis. No hard-core gamer herself, the battles ahead will test Ms Sharma’s mettle.
夏尔马女士以坦率的态度进行改革，这种坦率在言辞委婉的大型科技界实属罕见。她宣布微软的游戏业务“不健康”，并将在未来12个月内裁减3200名员工，同时最多关闭五家亏损的工作室。她的诊断明确了两件事：第一，纳德拉的游戏战略严重失误；第二，整个游戏主机行业正面临供应链危机。她本人并非硬核玩家，但未来的战斗将考验她的勇气。