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Daily Minute Master Series
April 30, 2026

by Corey Padveen

Marketing News and Updates

Meta assists FBI in major scam center crackdown

Meta assisted the FBI in an operation that resulted in the arrests this week of at least 276 people involved in an online scam operation. U.S. law enforcement worked with police across various jurisdictions to take down a network of at least nine scam centers contributing to a range of illegal activities.

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Meta’s daily active user count declined in Q1 2026

Meta has published its Q1 2026 performance update, which includes some interesting notes on the development of the business, as it continues to bet big on the AI future.

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EU Commission says Meta’s age restriction systems are inadequate

Meta may face another big fine in the EU, after the European Commission announced the preliminary findings of its investigation into the company’s efforts to keep young users out of its apps. The commission’s findings, released Wednesday, said that Meta’s current age checking and detection systems were inadequate and failed to meet obligations under the Digital Services Act.

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Google Launches AI Max For Shopping and Travel Campaigns

Google has officially expanded AI Max to Shopping and Travel campaigns as it hits one year in market. The announcement comes on the heels of its upcoming annual Google Marketing Live event on May 20th.

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AI Gives You The Vocabulary. It Doesn’t Give You The Expertise

Hiring managers are watching something uncomfortable happen in interview rooms right now. Candidates arrive with the right credentials, the right vocabulary, the right tool stack on their résumés, and then someone asks them to reason through a problem out loud, and the room goes quiet in the wrong way. Not in the thoughtful kind of way, but the empty kind that tells you the person across the table has never actually had to think through a hard problem on their own. And research is converging on the same conclusion. Microsoft, the Swiss Business School, and TestGorilla have all documented the same pattern independently: Heavy AI reliance correlates directly with declining critical thinking, and the effect is strongest in younger, less experienced practitioners.

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AI Search Clicks Often Go To Local Domains: Report

Aleyda Solis’s Similarweb analysis of 10 markets shows that AI search clicks frequently redirect to local domains, with the distribution differing by industry.

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