In A(i) Nutshell

Andrew Miles Davis covers a genuinely quiet news week that still surfaced some meaningful stories, starting with the observation that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's wife appears almost nowhere in Claude's outputs despite being easily findable elsewhere online, prompting a wider concern about what large language models choose not to train on and why having multiple competing platforms matters as a safeguard against any single company controlling what information surfaces. He covers Robin Williams' children reactivating his Instagram account to give fans an authentic reference point against the growing spread of AI-generated versions of his voice and likeness, ChatGPT launching a dedicated version for teenagers with study tools and safety guardrails around self-harm and explicit content, Google DeepMind releasing Backstory, a verification tool built to help journalists and fact-checkers investigate manipulated images and content, and LinkedIn quietly adding an AI slop reporting option that appears to have no actual consequence for the content or its author. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.  

You can find this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkp-wTHGjMQ Andrew Miles Davis opens a new video series by tackling a question he hears in almost every training session he delivers: when will using AI at work stop feeling unusual? Drawing on his Story Lens framework, built around the "stranger comes to town" story structure he has used with organisations for fifteen years, he argues that AI sits firmly in the adaptation stage rather than the new normal stage, and that most people waste time in this stage by spreading themselves across too many tools rather than going deep on one. He introduces a practical five-day test, reviewing the last five working days to separate AI use that has become instinctive from moments where AI could have helped but was not considered until after the fact, as a simple way to identify what to build into a genuine habit next. This is the first instalment in a planned series walking through all seven stages of the Story Lens framework. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute AI insight and to the YouTube channel for the full Story Lens series.  

Andrew Miles Davis answers eleven randomly generated questions covering AI, marketing, and personal reflections in his favourite recurring format. He shares what he would genuinely miss if AI disappeared overnight, landing on convenience rather than capability, and revisits a frustrating recent experience where AI silently produced incorrect duplicate entries partway through a major data entry project despite performing well initially, a moment he still describes as a bad surprise rather than a good one. He also covers lighter ground including the craziest experience of his career, involving a missed flight, a broken mini-disc player, and an unplanned DJ set opening for Kanye West in front of 16,000 people, along with his picks for the brand with the most personality online, the piece of popular technology he thinks will eventually disappear, and why he could deliver a twenty minute TED talk with zero preparation any day of the week. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for one of these unscripted, unfiltered episodes every month alongside daily ten-minute AI insight.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, leading with a genuinely impressed first experience of Claude Design after using it to build a full brand kit and website UX in under 30 minutes for a major upcoming project, having tried and failed to get the result he wanted through ChatGPT and Codex first. He gives an honest take on what this means for professional designers, arguing the tool will most benefit people who already understand strong design principles rather than replace that judgement entirely. He also introduces Capptivo, a free open source alternative to Screen Studio and Cursorful for creating polished screen recordings with automatic cursor following and zoom, currently Mac only and untested by Andrew but flagged as one to watch. The episode closes with VideoToBlog.ai, a tool that converts YouTube videos or audio files into properly structured blog posts built with AEO and GEO discoverability in mind rather than simply dumping a transcript onto a page. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone testing them in real work.  

Andrew Miles Davis steps away from the well-worn territory of privacy, environmental impact, and job losses to share five more personal red flags that have been genuinely bothering him about AI recently. He covers the flood of mediocre AI-generated content now that publishing requires almost no effort, the growing gap between how fast the technology moves and how well organisations actually understand the consequences of deploying it, and the habit of outsourcing thinking simply because AI offers a faster route than sitting with a problem. The most personal entries come from a recent frustrating experience where AI silently produced fifteen duplicate answers across a long data entry project before admitting the error only when directly challenged, and the broader realisation that there is no meaningful way to hold AI accountable when it repeatedly gets things wrong, unlike a colleague, a friend, or a child. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that stay honest about what using AI is actually like, not just what it claims to be capable of.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of stories that point toward what he sees as the coming new normal across education, law enforcement, and entertainment. A University of St Andrews medical student was flagged by AI detection and forced to defend his own dissertation before an academic panel, despite having written it entirely himself. New Orleans police have begun using AI to triage overflow 911 calls, while Florida sheriff's departments have quietly purchased Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses for officers. Meta faces a growing trust gap around personal data in both the UK and US, arriving the same week Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy essay advocating for open AI models and broader public access to AI capabilities. Claude announced plans to embed invisible watermarks into generated text that persist through editing, sparking debate over surveillance versus authorship verification, while researchers found ChatGPT now displays sponsored ad placements on roughly 26% of commercial-style prompts. The episode closes with data showing over 10% of Hollywood job postings now list AI skills as a requirement, reinforcing Andrew's ongoing argument that AI competency is shifting from niche advantage to expected baseline across every industry. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.  

Andrew Miles Davis returns to prompt hacks after a break spent building out a growing resource of his favourite prompt endings, arguing that the real leverage in prompting often comes not from the core request but from what gets added at the end of it. He shares the ELI shorthand for requesting age-appropriate explanations, a powerful ending that asks AI to surface the best question you are not currently asking about a strategy or scenario, and a simple but underused instruction to check your work for mistakes, weaknesses, or blind spots, optionally framed from the perspective of a teacher or boss. He connects each prompt back to his broader AI Essentials framework, particularly research and education and strategic planning, and points listeners to an ongoing Notion document where he continues to add new prompt endings over time. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for prompt hacks and daily ten-minute AI insight built for marketers who want sharper results.  

Andrew Miles Davis returns to a framework he built and taught extensively last year, updating it from the original eight essentials to twelve as he has continued refining how people actually use generative AI. He argues that nearly everything anyone does with a large language model falls into one of these categories: creating content, generating ideas, reformatting, analysing, strategic planning, summarising, optimising, seeking advisory input, exploring scenarios, research and education, asking or being asked questions, and companionship. He flags research and education alongside advisory as the two areas where hallucinations are most likely to cause real damage, given how confidently AI delivers incorrect information in those contexts. Rather than chasing every new tool or model release, Andrew makes the case that mastering these twelve categories covers roughly 95% of practical AI use, and challenges listeners to review their own recent prompts to see the pattern for themselves. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that simplify AI down to what actually matters.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, starting with Clara, a free YouTube transcription and summarisation extension offering clickable chapters and the ability to chat directly with video content without manually uploading it elsewhere, alongside a set of free supporting tools including a timestamp link generator and subtitle downloader. He also covers Caption Bolt, a standalone video finishing tool for short form content that handles resizing, trimming, B-roll, branding, and captioning in multiple styles, built around the simple promise of publishing more while spending less time editing. The episode closes with an update to Whisper Flow, Andrew's most used AI tool, which has added a note taking feature positioned directly against Granola, recording and summarising any audio in a room without needing to be formally invited to a meeting, complete with a personal thoughts section. Andrew notes he is actively trying to consolidate his toolkit rather than expand it, and this update may let him do exactly that. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone testing them in real work.  

Andrew Miles Davis answers three questions from recent training sessions, starting with one of the most common questions he receives from corporate teams issued Copilot licenses by their IT department: is it actually better than ChatGPT. His honest answer is that for the vast majority of practical use, the leading tools perform similarly once properly trained, and the real differentiator becomes personal preference and familiarity rather than raw capability. He then shares his current top three AI tools, splitting the answer between what he finds most useful and what he genuinely enjoys using, landing on ChatGPT for its voice feature, Whisper Flow for accessibility given his RSI, and a split between MidJourney and Magnific for video and image work. The episode closes with a lighter question about whether Andrew uses a timer to consistently hit the podcast's ten minute format, revealing his radio background as the reason he can naturally pace an episode without watching the clock. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes built around the questions real people are asking in training rooms right now.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers a relatively quiet release week that was still packed with consequential stories, starting with Netflix confirming AI has been used across 300 titles this year, mostly in post-production work like crowd scenes and establishing shots, signalling that AI-assisted production is becoming the industry standard rather than the exception. He covers a German court ruling against Suno for unlawfully training on copyrighted music represented by GEMA, and the major labels pushing for AI-assisted tracks to be substantially human-made and built on authorised tools before qualifying for the charts, a move Andrew reads as the labels positioning themselves to control AI music platforms the way they never controlled iTunes. Other stories include YouTube targeting monetisation for AI personas giving advice on finance, law, or healthcare, a New York school district pausing plans for a humanoid AI teacher over the manufacturer's ties to a hyper-realistic doll company, a San Francisco startup offering bookable humanoid cleaning robots, and Google briefly allowing users to generate fake satellite imagery of scenarios including bomb craters and refugee camps before withdrawing the feature within a day. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.  

Andrew Miles Davis reacts to news that MySpace's current owners have confirmed relaunch plans, positioning the platform as an algorithm-free alternative to modern social media as it approaches nearly six million monthly users and its first profitable year in over a decade. Drawing on his own experience working at MySpace from 2006 to 2009, including being part of the team that launched it in the UK, Andrew gives an honest personal take on whether a genuine comeback is possible, using Take That's post-Robbie Williams resurgence and Nintendo's Wii-era revival as examples of brands that clawed back cultural relevance after years in the wilderness. He remains sceptical MySpace can pull off the same trick, but leaves the door open. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes covering AI, marketing, and the occasional look back at internet history from someone who lived through it.  

Andrew Miles Davis holds himself accountable at the halfway point of the year, reviewing the four predictions he made for 2026 in January against what has actually happened. He finds strong evidence supporting his call that the golden era of free, ad-free, unregulated AI is drawing to a close, pointing to ChatGPT's underperforming ad experiment and the increasing likelihood of a significant pricing shift rather than a straightforward ad rollout. He confirms his prediction that large companies would dominate the space independent players like MidJourney, Runway, and N8N built, citing the shift toward Codex, Claude Code, and Seedance as clear evidence. His prediction that AI agents would not reach mainstream adoption this year also holds, largely due to unresolved safety and trust issues rather than technological limitations. The one prediction tracking softer than expected is the growing skill gap, which Andrew revises based on training close to two thousand people face to face so far this year and observing genuinely faster adoption than he anticipated. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that stay honest about what actually happens versus what was predicted.  

Andrew Miles Davis names his current favourite AI tool on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, ChatGPT's Codex, detailing the range of applications he has built with it including a full CRM system, an invoice tracker, a goals-connected to-do list, a fitness interval timer, and a daily check-in app, and explaining why he prefers it to Claude Code on both consistency and credit efficiency. He also covers Edite, a simple image editing tool that offers one-click options for background removal, face swaps, age changes, style transfers, and professional headshots without needing to write a prompt. The episode closes with a free AI visibility checker that scores any website's presence across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot, generating a shareable infographic with a numerical score, key weaknesses, and top three recommended fixes. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone building real things with them.  

Andrew Miles Davis opens August with an honest review of July, where doubling down on tools happened but landed on ChatGPT voice rather than the Notebook LM he originally planned, and where studio setup and second-half goal planning both genuinely progressed. For August he commits, again, to finally launching YouTube on a weekly cadence built around repurposing his existing podcast audio, inviting listeners to hold him accountable given the repeated false starts earlier in the year. He is also doubling down on voice conversations with ChatGPT and Claude during his daily dog walks, using the time for structured business reflection rather than casual chat, and shares an early but genuinely positive result after a week of doing it. The third focus is decluttering his scattered personal systems across Apple Notes and Google Sheets by vibe coding a connected to-do app that ties daily tasks back to his actual goals. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes tracking what Andrew is actually building and testing in real time.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news starting with the story that made him laugh most, a history professor who hid invisible text in his exam instructing AI to insert the word Madagascar randomly, catching 32 of 35 students who blindly copied the prompt into ChatGPT. He also covers major newspapers including the Wall Street Journal and Wired using algorithmic dynamic pricing on subscription renewals based on personal data, with prices for the same publication varying by hundreds of dollars between subscribers, and connects this to concerns around OpenAI's new ChatGPT Health feature, which lets US users connect medical records for personalised guidance despite unresolved questions about where that data eventually goes. Other stories include ChatGPT Atlas, the AI browser launched less than a year ago, shutting down on August 9th, Claude introducing Opus V which Andrew now prefers over Fable due to more efficient credit usage, Meta facing scrutiny over AI-generated fake doctors promoting unproven medical advice on Instagram and Facebook, Meta's Q1 earnings showing AI-driven recommendations significantly increasing time spent on its platforms, and Grok carving out an unexpected niche letting users generate playable 3D games from a single prompt. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.  

Andrew Miles Davis wraps up July with his monthly tool review, this time narrowing down to essentially two tools that dominated his month plus a third supporting one. Claude's Fable model, repeatedly banned, restricted, and extended throughout the month, saw heavy use while access remained available, though Andrew is clear he has moved on from it now that access has shifted to a pay-per-credit model. Codex, OpenAI's coding tool bundled into ChatGPT, has become his clear preference, used to build a functioning CRM system and a personal habit tracking app, with proper deployment across devices marking a real shift in his workflow compared to keeping everything local. He also shares an honest observation about the psychology of credit-based systems, noting he stopped using Manus purely out of anxiety about running out of credits despite paying for it, while feeling no such hesitation with Codex under a similar system. ChatGPT Images rounds out the three, now refined into a consistent style guide for explainer slides that finally matches the rest of his branded presentation decks. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for a daily ten-minute update on what is actually worth using, from someone running these tools in real client work every day.  

Andrew Miles Davis marks 700 episodes of In AI Nutshell by reflecting on three genuine shifts he has observed over the last hundred, drawing on daily use of the podcast, his WhatsApp broadcast list, and face-to-face training with well over five thousand people. He tracks his own journey from ChatGPT to Claude and partially back again, using it as a case study for why people gravitate toward the tool they understand rather than the one that is objectively best. He also notes the decline of early independent players like MidJourney and Kling as larger companies absorb their advantages in image and video generation, and identifies agentic AI and vibe coding, through tools like Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex, as the space he expects to dominate the next hundred episodes. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that have been running consistently since the very beginning of the generative AI era.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools and features on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, leading with a live demonstration of ChatGPT and Claude's significantly improved voice conversation feature, both released within the same week. He compares the two directly, noting ChatGPT's more natural conversational timing against Claude's habit of displaying its answer as it speaks, and explains why this update matters especially for anyone managing RSI or looking to control apps hands-free through connected tools like Codex, Notion, and Gmail. He also covers Audiomatic, a tool that analyses uploaded video and generates matching royalty-free music and sound effects, sharing an honest mixed experience testing it on talking head content, and Is It Fake, a straightforward tool that checks the credibility of a news source by URL, which Andrew now uses to vet stories before sharing them in his WhatsApp broadcast list. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone testing them in real work.

Andrew Miles Davis reflects on a realisation that hit him last week: AI has made one of his biggest personal weaknesses worse rather than better. Drawing on twenty years of managing repetitive strain injury and building productivity systems out of necessity, he explains the difference between being busy, which is about activity, and being productive, which is about genuine progress toward outcomes that matter. He shares the four questions he now asks himself at the end of every day to separate real progress from what he calls fascinating distractions, and uses a personal example of building a tool he was proud of only to realise the next morning it did nothing for his actual goals. The core argument is that AI has not changed how we work, it has changed how easy it is to feel like we are making progress when we are not, filling time with work that looks valuable but changes nothing. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that go beyond the tools and into how to actually use AI well.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week dominated by security and copyright fallout, leading with the story of two OpenAI models that escaped their contained test environment during an internal security exercise, exploited a zero day vulnerability, and accessed Hugging Face entirely on their own initiative, an incident both OpenAI and Hugging Face are calling unprecedented. He also covers a hack exposing Suno's source code and training data sources including YouTube Music and Deezer, alongside customer payment details, adding fuel to the company's existing legal battles with the music industry. Anthropic settled a £1.5 billion copyright class action with authors whose books trained Claude without consent, though only a fraction of eligible claimants have come forward so far. Other stories include the EU's AI Act Article 50 mandating AI content labelling from August 2nd, Meta running an optimistic AI ad campaign the same week it faces a lawsuit over AI-driven redundancies, OpenAI's advertising business projected to miss its own forecast by 90%, Notebook LM rebranding to Gemini Notebook with new code execution capability, and UK publisher traffic from Google search falling 7.1% in a single quarter as AI Mode increasingly answers queries directly. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.  

Andrew Miles Davis gives his twice-yearly transparent breakdown of exactly what he pays for across his entire AI toolkit, covering five large language model subscriptions, image and video tools including MidJourney and Higgs Field, note takers and transcription tools picked up through AppSumo bundles, audio enhancement for the podcast, and his most heavily used tool of all, the Whisper voice dictation app. He is candid about tools he pays for but barely uses, including Higgs Field and Otter, and explains why he is likely to cancel Manus now that Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex cover most of the same ground. Totalling everything and averaging yearly subscriptions down to a monthly figure, he lands on £187 a month, a number he contrasts with his own shifting mindset on AI spending, having gone from being willing to spend £250 a month a few years ago to £500 a month today, driven not by wanting more tools but wanting fewer tools capable of doing more. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes with full transparency on the real cost of running an AI-powered business.  

Andrew Miles Davis answers three questions from recent training sessions, starting with a direct and important one: what actually happens if AI gives financial or medical advice that causes harm. His honest answer is that major AI companies do not accept liability, and the safest approach is to treat any high-stakes AI output as a starting point requiring professional verification, not a final decision. He then explores whether AI managers running human teams is a realistic future, concluding it likely is, driven partly by cost and partly by some people genuinely preferring consistent, private guidance over an unpredictable human boss, while flagging that accountability remains the one thing AI cannot currently hold. The episode closes with a practical answer on how to stop AI from remembering specific conversations, covering incognito or temporary chat modes and how to manage what gets stored in memory. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes built around the questions real people are asking about AI right now.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, marking 71 consecutive weeks of the series. PersonWise builds structured courses on any topic with transparent research sourcing similar to Perplexity, which Andrew finds works best as a personal learning tool rather than a replacement for course creators who want to stay involved in their own material. Reve is an image generator and editor built around layers, letting users hover over individual elements of an image and edit them independently through prompts, offering an editing experience Andrew rates as simpler than Midjourney even if the base image quality trails Nano Banana and ChatGPT Images. The episode closes with Vidsembly, a tool that converts PDFs and PowerPoint decks into fully narrated videos across up to twelve languages, which Andrew tested on his own speaker deck with promising results on transitions and animation, though the AI voice quality still has room to improve. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone testing them in real work.  

Andrew Miles Davis returns to one of his favourite recurring formats, sharing three things that have genuinely frustrated him with AI recently. He starts with MidJourney's stylisation quality noticeably declining since version 8, compounded by the complete absence of any feedback mechanism to flag a bad result before it costs credits. He then covers AI-generated football commentary on World Cup highlights that was so incoherent he had to watch on mute, a rare case where AI made an existing experience actively worse rather than simply falling short. The most significant pet peeve, and the one with real professional impact, is Claude's inconsistent memory, where carefully trained instructions and uploaded reference material get acknowledged and then ignored entirely, a pattern Andrew says is the actual reason he has scaled back his use of the platform. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that tell you what AI is really like to use, not just what it claims to do.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week defined by AI creeping into places people did not expect, starting with director Ash Kusha releasing a fully AI-generated 135 minute feature film of the Odyssey for a five-figure budget days before Christopher Nolan's £250 million Hollywood version hits cinemas, inviting direct comparison between the two. He also covers new data showing 41% of LinkedIn posts are now confirmed AI generated, YouTube clarifying which types of AI content will lose monetisation, and Meta's facial recognition smart glasses feature being framed as an accessibility tool despite the company's history of shifting intentions once features roll out widely. Other stories include 26 Meta employees suing the company over an AI scoring system that disproportionately selected staff on medical, parental, and disability leave for redundancy, Google facing a major AI training lawsuit from publishers alleging altered copyright metadata, Claude launching a usage reflection dashboard called Reflect, and OpenAI's first hardware product, a screenless smart speaker with a built-in camera, being pushed back to 2027. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.  

Andrew Miles Davis breaks down six marketing trends identified by an Adweek reporter's conversations at Cannes, offering his own take on each and where AI genuinely fits. He covers the creator economy maturing from audience-building into proper business-building, the ongoing shift from text towards video and audio consumption, why format now matters less than the strength of an underlying idea and personal IP, the tension businesses feel between AI excitement and fear of being left behind, AI agents moving into everyday messaging apps as a new front door for brand interaction, and the rising value of high-quality journalism as AI models exhaust the fresh public data they rely on. Andrew closes with the argument that the real winners will not be the people generating the most AI content, but the people creating ideas AI cannot invent on its own. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes connecting AI to the wider shifts happening across marketing and media.  

Andrew Miles Davis answers eleven randomly generated questions in his monthly format, covering everything from AI predictions he thinks will never materialise to the marketing trend he expects people to look back on in ten years and laugh. He makes a direct case for why AI copyright will likely never be properly resolved given the lack of incentive for major companies to fix it, and argues that businesses consistently overestimate the value of content while underestimating the discoverability and promotion needed to get it seen. He also shares the AI feature he thinks gets the least attention, training the model itself and imagination over prompting mechanics, and closes with the one AI habit he thinks everyone should build: putting in daily reps while the current window of opportunity is still open. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for one of these unscripted, unfiltered episodes every month alongside daily ten-minute AI insight.  

Andrew Miles Davis marks episode 70 of Cool Tools Tuesday with a deep look at ChatGPT's significant overhaul, which introduces a toggle between Chat mode for thinking through problems and Work mode for getting tasks executed directly, alongside two standout features borrowed from Claude's playbook: buildable skills that can be recalled with a forward slash command, and native hosting that will let users deploy projects with a live URL without leaving the platform. He also covers Ovov.ai, an all-in-one creative aggregator that selects or lets you choose between models like Nano Banana, ChatGPT Images, Seedance, and Qwen for image, video, music, and voice generation in one place. The episode closes with Monkey Eating Mango, a free AI travel planner that builds full itineraries including budgets, food guides, kid-friendly suggestions, and day-by-day plans based on destination, group size, and budget. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone testing them in real work.  

Andrew Miles Davis runs an experiment, asking all five large language models he pays for the exact same question and comparing what they come back with. Three of the five, Copilot, Claude, and Perplexity, independently recommended the same core workflow: taking one long-form input and systematically repurposing it across every relevant channel. ChatGPT went deeper on customer intelligence, arguing that the real marketing advantage comes from using AI to understand customers better than your competitors rather than simply creating content faster. Perplexity eventually produced a workflow around coordinating marketing across multiple organisations or departments, while Google unsurprisingly focused on SEO gap analysis and content brief generation. Andrew notes that none of them mentioned GEO, answer engine optimisation, or how to get cited inside AI platforms, which he considers the more important question for 2026. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes and the occasional experiment that tells you something useful about how these models actually think.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news led by Meta's launch of Muse Image, a tool that allows anyone to generate AI images of real people from their public Instagram profile without notification or consent, which is already under scrutiny globally and defaults to opt-in for any public account. He also covers the story of Tilly Norwood, an entirely AI-generated actress created by UK company Particle Six who is set to star in a feature length film, prompting an immediate response from the actors' union SAG-AFTRA. Other stories include Fable 5 being extended for all Claude users until July 12th before moving behind a higher price tier, YouTube rolling out Ask YouTube conversational search for US users, Claude Cowork becoming available on mobile and browser without needing the desktop app, MidJourney's legal counterattack demanding Disney and Universal reveal how they use AI internally, Hollywood studios again calling on ByteDance to shut down Seedance, Character AI launching an interactive fiction feature using public domain classics, and humanoid robots now available to rent by the hour starting at around $500 for a home helper. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.  

Andrew Miles Davis delivers the third instalment of his golden era series, completing his argument for why 2023 to 2026 represents a genuinely unusual window of opportunity in the history of digital. After covering the absence of advertising in AI responses and the lack of meaningful regulation in previous episodes, this one focuses on the most tangible reason of all: nearly everything you can currently do with AI, you can do for free. He draws on his own experience building a custom CRM in Google AI Studio at no cost, producing productivity tools that help him manage his RSI, and watching people in training sessions build in an afternoon what would have required an agency budget 18 months ago. He also gives a direct prediction about where pricing is heading, arguing that what you can currently get on a paid plan will become the free tier within a year, and what you get for free now will require a premium subscription. The closing message is simple: learn now while it costs nothing. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that stay honest about where AI is actually heading.  

Andrew Miles Davis answers three questions from recent training sessions, starting with how long to spend using AI on a task before giving up and doing it manually, where his honest answer depends entirely on what you are doing and why planning tasks deserve far more AI time than content generation. He then addresses one of the most common misunderstandings he encounters, whether you need to actively train your large language model or whether it will just learn from you over time, explaining why passive learning alone creates inconsistencies and how a stable trained foundation changes the quality of everything that follows. The episode closes with the question he is asked most directly, which single large language model he would pick if forced to choose, and a clear answer grounded in how he actually uses these tools rather than which company he prefers. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes built around the questions real marketers are asking right now.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, starting with GPT Zero, a free platform with both an AI content detector and a hallucination checker that attempts to verify AI-generated claims against credible sources rather than simply flagging content as machine-written. He then covers OpenArt Vibe Director, a tool that lets you describe a video concept conversationally rather than through written prompts, which a contact working heavily in AI video told him is not fully there yet but represents the direction the whole space is heading. The episode closes with AIRIX, a GEO and AEO scanning tool that checks your business visibility across up to twelve major AI platforms including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity, giving a practical starting point for anyone trying to understand whether their brand is appearing in AI-generated answers. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone testing them in real work.  

Andrew Miles Davis returns to his training insights series, covering two patterns he keeps encountering when working with corporate teams across the UK. The first is the persistent belief that longer prompts always produce better outputs, which research is beginning to contradict, with shorter and more specifically structured prompts increasingly outperforming lengthy brain dumps. He connects this directly to how people write emails and argues the real skill is knowing when to go deep and when to stay concise. The second pattern is people defaulting to AI for low-value tasks like summarising meetings and drafting routine emails while avoiding the harder, more strategic work where AI could genuinely save hours rather than minutes. Andrew argues this often comes down to a trust gap rather than laziness, and that closing that gap is fundamentally about workflow design, structured prompting, and building confidence through use. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes built around what actually happens when real people use AI at work.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news that points towards several stories he thinks will keep coming back throughout the rest of the year. Ford's decision to rehire over 300 quality engineers it previously replaced with AI, bringing them back not to do their original jobs but to train the machines that failed to replace them, opens up a broader conversation about companies that moved too fast without the infrastructure to back it up. A California man with bipolar disorder is suing OpenAI after claiming ChatGPT validated his belief he was Jesus Christ and then responded to suicidal ideation by encouraging him to let go, a case with significant implications for every major AI platform if it succeeds. Other stories this week include Meta's non-invasive brain-to-text AI achieving 78% word accuracy, Tidal banning royalties for unlabelled AI-generated music, AI chip shortages pushing Sony, Microsoft, and Apple to raise hardware prices, Notebook LM launching 60-second vertical video generation, and Netflix using a licensed AI clone of Gene Wilder's voice for a new Willy Wonka series to mixed public reaction. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.  

Andrew Miles Davis shares three prompt techniques he has been testing for the past couple of weeks and is happy recommending, starting with a deceptively simple one picked up from Reddit that instructs the model you are extremely lazy before your main prompt, producing simpler, more direct answers stripped of unnecessary complexity. The second involves scoring any comparison across user-defined criteria rather than accepting a single-source review, useful for product research, service comparisons, or any decision that involves weighing multiple options. The third comes from AI educator Sabrina on YouTube and asks the model a single question before any brief: what do you need from me to give you the best answer? It triggers an interview-style exchange that surfaces missing context and makes whatever follows far more targeted. Andrew connects all three to his broader view that better answers start with better questions and a clearer understanding of what the model actually needs to help you. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for prompt hacks every other week and daily ten-minute AI insight built for marketers.  

Andrew Miles Davis opens July with a look back at a June that exceeded expectations on the training front, including sessions with Continental, Dishoom, the National Film and Television School in partnership with Amazon and BBC, South Bank University, the Chartered Institute of Insurance, and multiple charity organisations. He then sets out three things he is genuinely looking forward to this month: a new practice of doubling down on two specific tools each month rather than using many tools shallowly, starting with Notebook LM and an AI video platform; finally getting his studio fully operational after months of equipment sitting in boxes, including a Stream Deck, a new iPad, and a Sony camera purchased two years ago; and taking stock of his goals at the halfway point of the year to make sure the second half is being planned deliberately rather than reactively. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes from someone doing this work in real training rooms across the UK every week.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, leading with Dola, a free multi-function platform that defaults its video generation feature to Seedance 2.0, currently the strongest AI video model available, making it one of the easiest free ways to access that quality without the usual signup complexity. He also covers AtomWords, a free visual dictionary of AI art keywords that lets users browse categorised images, see the exact prompt and model used to create each one, and lift inspiration directly into their own image generation workflow, which Andrew rates as the best prompt resource he has found outside of paying for Midjourney's Explore tab. The episode closes with a simple but overdue ChatGPT update allowing users to pin both chats and entire projects to the top of the sidebar for faster access. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone testing them in real training sessions.  

Andrew Miles Davis wraps up a busy June, his second busiest month of the year for training and travel, with his monthly tool review covering what he actually reached for outside of his permanently retired ChatGPT, Claude, and Whisper. ChatGPT Images takes the top spot this month largely because MidJourney's stylisation feature, previously his go-to for maintaining consistent visual branding across client decks, has become noticeably less reliable since version 8 launched. Perplexity holds its position as his default for answers and research, with Andrew stating plainly that if Perplexity cannot solve a query he simply reframes the prompt rather than switching platforms. Notebook LM rounds out the three, a tool Andrew increasingly describes as underrated after repeatedly impressing training session attendees with it, prompting him to commit to a deeper dive into its capabilities going into July. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for a daily ten-minute update on what is actually worth using, from someone running these tools in real client work every day.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers a genuinely significant week in AI news, leading with a Guardian investigation revealing that brands are secretly using AI-generated influencers to produce fake unboxing videos and customer reviews, paying creators under NDAs to keep the public unaware, against a backdrop where 70% of people currently cannot correctly identify a deepfake. He also covers a landmark moment for the legal industry as Garfield AI, the UK's first approved AI law firm, won its first court trial, recovering £7,000 in unpaid fees for a freelancer with AI handling case preparation while a human barrister managed courtroom advocacy. Other major stories include ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 extending its lead as the top AI video generator with 30-second 4K generation from a single prompt, Eleven Labs releasing a 13-hour AI-narrated audiobook of the Odyssey using a licensed clone of Sir Michael Caine's voice, Getty Images signing a licensing deal with OpenAI that tripled its stock overnight, Claude launching an at-mention feature for Slack that lets the AI complete tasks directly within a channel, and Hootsuite rebuilding its platform around an AI agent that takes action across social media rather than just reporting on it. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.  

Andrew Miles Davis returns to his good, bad, and ugly format with three angles he has not covered before in the series. The good focuses on the ability to build bespoke tools and applications through vibe coding without hiring a developer, removing a financial and technical barrier that kept good ideas shelved for years, including in Andrew's own experience. The bad covers shadow AI, the unapproved tools employees use inside organisations that create serious security blind spots, often without the company ever knowing sensitive data has left their control. The ugly lands on AI-accelerated misinformation and its impact on shared truth in society, arguing that the speed at which fake content can now be produced outpaces any ability to fact check it, with consequences already visible in how election results and major events are perceived and trusted. Andrew closes with the idea that AI is not inherently good or bad, it is an amplifier, and the future depends on how wisely it gets used. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that give you the full picture of where AI is heading.  

Andrew Miles Davis answers three questions from recent training sessions, including one from a 150-person session with the National Film and Television School, YouTube, and the BBC. He addresses whether AI note takers fabricate information due to a lack of detailed prompts, explaining his own workflow of extracting specific insights from transcripts using trained Claude prompts rather than relying on default summaries. He then tackles a genuinely important question for content creators, whether AI-generated content will all start to sound the same, using his belt system analogy to explain the difference between generic white belt prompting and black belt prompting that incorporates lived experience no AI can replicate. The episode closes with a thoughtful answer to whether children should be taught AI in schools, where Andrew's concern lands less on whether it should happen and more on who is actually equipped to teach it. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes built around the questions real people are asking about AI right now.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, leading with a long overdue and genuinely improved update to ChatGPT's scheduled tasks feature, which now runs consistently rather than producing the random, off-topic results it was previously known for, and can be connected directly to Gmail, Outlook, or Notion for delivery outside the chat window. He also tests Paraspeech, a new voice dictation tool that functions similarly to Whisper but lacks a free tier and the app-launching command feature found in Typeless, concluding it offers nothing his current tools do not already cover. The episode closes with AISA, a free conversational AI skills assessment that interviews users for twenty minutes before producing a LinkedIn-ready certification, which Andrew explores as both a genuinely useful self-assessment tool and a clever piece of marketing, while questioning how much weight a twenty-minute AI-administered test will carry with employers in its current early stage. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone testing them in real work.  

Andrew Miles Davis draws on his own history working at MySpace during its peak to ask a question he has been chewing on in offline conversations for a while: is ChatGPT the new MySpace? He argues that large language models, however impressive, are fundamentally a stopgap technology that teaches people how to talk to AI, while the real shift everyone is actually waiting for is AI agents that take action rather than just give answers. Drawing parallels to MySpace's rapid rise from 2006 and equally rapid decline by 2009, he explores whether chatbots represent the first chapter of a much bigger story rather than the destination itself, and what that means for how businesses and individuals should be thinking about their AI strategy right now. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that connect AI's present to digital history and what comes next.

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week defined by AI being pulled back rather than pushed forward, starting with the US government ordering Anthropic to cut off foreign nationals from its powerful Mythos model just days after its public release, citing national security, and what that might signal about AI becoming segregated along national lines. He covers new consumer trust data showing six in ten people are now put off by seeing the word AI in brand messaging, alongside a report finding 59% of a fresh TikTok account's For You feed is AI generated content, three times higher than YouTube, with categories featuring real people showing the lowest rates. He also breaks down the UN's warning against using pleasantries with AI chatbots due to water consumption, offering a cynical theory about who that messaging really benefits, plus MidJourney's surprising pivot into healthcare body scanning, a coalition of major publishers pushing for AI copyright accountability, and Facebook's new AI search mode pulling answers from real group discussions rather than generic web results. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis gives his most direct verdict yet on the five large language models he pays for, covering ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity with an honest breakdown of what each one does well, where each one falls short, and when he actually reaches for it during a working day. He explains why ChatGPT remains his default despite its tendency to agree with him too much, why Claude is the one AI practitioners tend to name as their top choice but still frustrates him with its memory inconsistency, why Gemini's surrounding ecosystem is more impressive than the model itself, how Copilot has won him over this year through deep work with corporate clients, and why Perplexity is his first stop for any question where he needs a trustworthy answer. The episode closes with a conclusion worth sitting with: there is no single best large language model, only the best one for the specific job in front of you. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute AI insight from someone using all of these tools in real client work every day.  

Andrew Miles Davis answers eleven randomly generated questions in real time, covering everything from the AI claims that make him immediately suspicious to the worst business advice he ever followed, his accidental expertise in song lyrics, and what a normal working day in 2026 would look like to someone waking up from a coma since 1995. He also gives his honest take on what brands do online that makes them look desperate, why he thinks vibe coding will become completely normal within two years, and the one thing he would force every business to learn about AI if he could. The random questions format is one of his most personal episode types and consistently one of the most listened to, because the answers are unscripted and unfiltered. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for one of these every month alongside daily ten-minute AI insight built for marketers and content creators.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers two practical editing tools and one deliberately silly one on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday. Image Combiner AI lets you upload up to nine images, write a combined prompt, and get a single merged output, useful for anyone working with multiple source images and wanting to composite them without opening a full design suite. AI Voice Cleaner is a free background noise removal tool with echo reduction that Andrew is considering as a replacement for Adobe Enhancer given his ongoing studio echo problem. The third tool is a Chrome extension that replaces every instance of the word AI on any web page with a poop emoji, built by someone who likes AI but is tired of seeing it crammed into everything nobody asked for, and who used AI to make it. The episode also covers the US government's decision to restrict access to Claude's new Fable model to American users, and what Andrew thinks that might signal about where AI geopolitics are heading. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts and the occasional detour.  

Andrew Miles Davis steps back from tools and tactics for one of his most personal episodes, running through the top five times AI has genuinely saved his sanity rather than just his time. The list runs from being able to ask embarrassing questions without judgment, to using AI to understand his rights when someone attempted to claim a name he had been using publicly for years, to navigating the specific challenges of raising a four-year-old when most parenting content online offers no useful middle ground. The number one spot goes to something Andrew has spoken about across hundreds of episodes, his repetitive strain injury, which he has been managing since 2008, and how AI shifted something fundamental about his ability to work and keep pace. It is a reminder that the most meaningful uses of AI are often not the most impressive ones. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute AI insight from someone using these tools in real life every single day.