Sources: Google canceled the next version of its Pixelbook laptop slated for 2023 and dissolved the team building it, as part of recent cost-cutting measures (The Verge)

Monica Chin / The Verge:
Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 (13.5-inch) review: strong single-core performance, thin and light, and 3:2, but 720p camera, few ports, and average battery life  —  Microsoft made a few updates to the Surface Laptop, and I’m very sad about one of them … I’m a big fan of Microsoft’s laptop hardware …

Monica Chin / The Verge:
Framework and Google partner to launch the $999 Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition, a user-upgradeable model running Chrome OS, shipping in early December  —  Framework and Google have announced the new Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition.  As the name implies, this is an upgradable …

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon launches a cost-cutting review focused on unprofitable businesses, including devices unit, which had a $5B annual operating loss in recent years  —  Review takes a close look at devices unit, which includes Alexa and has had an annual operating loss of $5 billion in some recent years, documents show

Dylan Martin / The Register:
Intel now says next-gen Sapphire Rapids Xeon chips are slated for January 2023, after a spate of delays dating back to 2021, another boon for AMD’s server chips  —  x86 giant offers January launch, AMD eating its chips  —  Intel said its next-generation Xeon Scalable CPUs will launch …

Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Leaked audio: at a Google all-hands, Sundar Pichai expressed some annoyance at staff questions about cost cutting, telling them not to “equate fun with money”  —  – Google CEO Sundar Pichai spent much of this week’s all-hands meeting addressing employee concerns about company cost-cutting measures.

CNBC:
Research details Amazon’s post-pandemic shrinking US warehouse footprint: 21 facilities have closed, 21 are canceled, and 27 are delayed or on hold  —  – Amazon is closing, canceling or delaying warehouses across the U.S. after its pandemic expansion left it with too much space.