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Key insights include: **Housing Delisting Surge:** 85,000 sellers removed homes from market in September, up 28% year-over-year, with 70% of listings stale after 60+ days. Florida markets lead with 84% relisting rates in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, keeping national prices elevated despite increased inventory.; **AI Chip Competition Shift:** Meta negotiates billions in Google TPU purchases instead of Nvidia chips, threatening 10% of Nvidia's revenue. Google's in-house processors offer cheaper alternatives for AI training, while OpenAI faces investor skepticism as partners like Oracle lose $400 billion in market value.; **Retail Spending Paradox:** Mastercard predicts 3.6% holiday spending growth but fewer items purchased due to inflation. Value retailers like TJ Maxx and Walmart outperform while Target and Home Depot struggle, revealing K-shaped economy where high-income households maintain spending while middle-income consumers cut back.

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Morning Brew Daily

Sellers Are Ripping Homes Off the Market & AI Slop is Taking Over Thanksgiving

November 26, 2025

27 min episode · 2 min read

Episode

27 min

Read time

2 min

Topics

Relationships, Investing, Fundraising & VC

AI-Generated Summary

Published Jan 12, 2026

Key Takeaways

✓Housing Delisting Surge: 85,000 sellers removed homes from market in September, up 28% year-over-year, with 70% of listings stale after 60+ days. Florida markets lead with 84% relisting rates in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, keeping national prices elevated despite increased inventory.
✓AI Chip Competition Shift: Meta negotiates billions in Google TPU purchases instead of Nvidia chips, threatening 10% of Nvidia's revenue. Google's in-house processors offer cheaper alternatives for AI training, while OpenAI faces investor skepticism as partners like Oracle lose $400 billion in market value.
✓Retail Spending Paradox: Mastercard predicts 3.6% holiday spending growth but fewer items purchased due to inflation. Value retailers like TJ Maxx and Walmart outperform while Target and Home Depot struggle, revealing K-shaped economy where high-income households maintain spending while middle-income consumers cut back.
✓AI Recipe Disruption: Food bloggers report 40% traffic drops as Google AI overviews aggregate recipes above original sources. AI creates Frankenstein recipes by combining incompatible ingredient lists and instructions from multiple sources, producing inedible results while cloned sites steal content and revenue.

What It Covers

Housing market dynamics show sellers delisting homes at record rates due to overpricing, while AI-generated recipe content disrupts food bloggers' traffic. Retail spending shows mixed signals heading into holiday season, and tech competition intensifies.

Key Questions Answered

•Housing Delisting Surge: 85,000 sellers removed homes from market in September, up 28% year-over-year, with 70% of listings stale after 60+ days. Florida markets lead with 84% relisting rates in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, keeping national prices elevated despite increased inventory.
•AI Chip Competition Shift: Meta negotiates billions in Google TPU purchases instead of Nvidia chips, threatening 10% of Nvidia's revenue. Google's in-house processors offer cheaper alternatives for AI training, while OpenAI faces investor skepticism as partners like Oracle lose $400 billion in market value.
•Retail Spending Paradox: Mastercard predicts 3.6% holiday spending growth but fewer items purchased due to inflation. Value retailers like TJ Maxx and Walmart outperform while Target and Home Depot struggle, revealing K-shaped economy where high-income households maintain spending while middle-income consumers cut back.
•AI Recipe Disruption: Food bloggers report 40% traffic drops as Google AI overviews aggregate recipes above original sources. AI creates Frankenstein recipes by combining incompatible ingredient lists and instructions from multiple sources, producing inedible results while cloned sites steal content and revenue.

Notable Moment

British searches for Thanksgiving jumped 440% year-over-year, with pumpkin spice up 550% and buffalo blue cheese curls up 410%, as younger UK residents embrace American holiday traditions through social media exposure and growing interest in US cuisine.

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Episode Transcript

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