In A(i) Nutshell

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.

Andrew Miles Davis covers one of the most news-heavy weeks of the year, opening with Anthropic releasing Fable Five, the first public model from its new Mythos class, the same family as the model considered too dangerous to release publicly earlier this year. He then covers a developing AI price war as Google drops its cheapest Gemini plan to five dollars a month and OpenAI signals it is considering significant price reductions in response. Other major stories include ChatGPT integrating directly with Gmail and Outlook so users can draft and send emails without leaving the platform, Apple overhauling Siri into a full conversational AI at its WWDC conference, Google admitting in court that music uploaded to YouTube can be used to train its Lyra music model without paying artists, the EU ordering Meta to open WhatsApp to rival AI platforms, China forcing Meta to unwind its two billion dollar Manus acquisition, and MidJourney sending out invites for a mystery hardware launch with no details attached. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis answers three questions from recent training sessions, starting with whether you should default to asking ChatGPT what to do in most situations and why he personally still starts with YouTube for tutorials before reaching for a large language model. He then gives his most underrated tool pick for June 2026, Copilot, explaining a genuine change of opinion over three months of deeper use and why he now pays more for it than any other AI subscription, with a prediction that Microsoft is about to have a strong second half of the year. The episode closes with an honest explanation of why the Fortnightly Fix is on a summer break, what it would take to bring it back, and why YouTube and LinkedIn video are the current priority. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes and FAQ answers from someone doing this work at the frontline of corporate AI training every day.  

Andrew Miles Davis delivers the second instalment of his series on why the golden era of AI is coming to an end, this time focusing on regulation, or more precisely, the current absence of it. He argues that the lack of oversight, while genuinely dangerous in some contexts, is also one of the defining features of the current window of opportunity, because once a regulatory body forms, whether that is governments, tech companies, or large corporations, it will be shaped by whoever holds the power, and that will change how the rest of us get to use these tools. He walks through the realistic candidates for who could regulate AI, explains why each option carries its own serious problems, and lands on the conclusion that the decision made in the next few years will not just determine what AI can do but who gets to decide what ordinary people can do with it. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that stay honest about where AI is actually heading.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, leading with NovaMirror, a free AI agent plugin for WordPress that lets site owners ask plain language questions about their website, debug errors, rewrite pages in specific styles, and bulk-update product catalogues without touching a line of code. He describes it as the tool he has been looking for since he started wondering when WordPress would seriously enter the agentic AI space. He then covers 11 Labs Music version two, which introduces section-by-section song building, the ability to regenerate only the parts of a track you are unhappy with, and genre-blending within a single song, before giving his honest ranking of the current AI music tools. The episode closes with Undetectable AI, a tool that checks whether text will be flagged as AI-generated and which Andrew sees as most useful in training sessions when organisations want to know how to identify AI content rather than hide it. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone using them in real work.

Andrew Miles Davis returns to his training insights series, sharing the two things he is seeing come up most consistently in corporate training sessions right now. The first is discoverability in AI, specifically how brands, freelancers, and organisations can get cited or mentioned inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot when someone asks a relevant question, a shift he describes as the most significant change to search in over twenty years. He walks through the basics of GEO and why Google's EEAT framework is still the foundation, shares a story of a global company finding him through ChatGPT after he optimised his own website, and explains why this topic is now appearing in every training session he delivers. The second trend is stylisation in presentations, covering how to train AI image tools to a consistent visual style and why more clients are asking about it after seeing his decks. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes built around what is actually happening in AI training rooms across the UK right now.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of news that includes a genuinely historic internet milestone, with a cybersecurity report confirming that automated bot traffic has for the first time surpassed human traffic online, with AI crawlers growing eight times faster than human web activity in the past year alone. He connects this directly to what it means for content creators and marketers who are still writing purely for human audiences. He also covers FIFA's AI-enabled World Cup ball that tracks position, spin, and speed hundreds of times per second to assist with offside decisions in real time, ChatGPT hitting one billion monthly active users faster than any consumer app in history, Anthropic filing for an IPO with a valuation approaching one trillion dollars, Meta's employee tracking programme facing a petition from over a thousand staff and resulting in a 30-minute personal pause as the compromise, and Martin Scorsese joining a generative AI firm as an advisor and describing the technology as creatively freeing to widespread backlash from the industry. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.  

Andrew Miles Davis delivers three prompt hacks built around a single observation that keeps coming up in his training sessions, that the people getting the most from AI are not the ones using it to produce more content, they are the ones using it to think better. The first prompt reframes a fear into a growth opportunity and asks for a pep talk in your own style, drawing on the idea that most fears beyond falling and loud noises are learned and therefore reversible. The second, borrowed from Reddit, asks AI to debug your thinking on any subject by identifying blind spots and logical leaps in your reasoning before you act on it. The third is a preparation prompt Andrew uses in his own teaching work, asking AI to strip a complex subject down to the three points you absolutely cannot afford to miss, borrowing from media training logic that has served him since his days in the music industry. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for prompt hacks every other week and daily ten-minute AI insight built for marketers who want to think differently.

Andrew Miles Davis pulls back the curtain on the complete workflow behind In AI Nutshell, answering one of the questions he gets most often in training sessions, how he actually uses AI to produce a daily ten-minute podcast approaching 700 episodes. He walks through his monthly content calendar planning, how he batches recordings, why he never records on the morning an episode goes out, and exactly where AI enters and exits the process. The answer is more human than most people expect. AI is used for summarising news bullet points before Friday recordings, generating the titles, descriptions, WhatsApp hooks, and tags from the transcript afterwards, and occasionally writing the closing thought. The recording, the ideas, the delivery, and the perspective are all his. He closes with a point worth sitting with: in a world flooded with AI generated content, knowing there is a real human behind something is becoming the differentiator. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute AI insight from someone doing this work every single day.

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, anchored by a question he finds himself asking more and more when he comes across new AI products: is this a genuinely differentiated tool or just something ChatGPT could replicate with a good prompt? He uses Thumbnail Creator as the case study, explaining what it does well while being direct about why he is not sure how tools like this survive long-term. He then covers Umind, a database of thousands of curated image prompts sorted by platform and style that lets you find a look you like, copy the prompt, and adapt it rather than starting from scratch. The episode closes with Just Hire Me, a job hunting platform that works like a CRM, filtering and ranking opportunities, drafting CVs and cover letters, and handling outreach on the user's behalf. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone who will tell you when something is not worth paying for.

Andrew Miles Davis opens June in a rare moment of honesty, recording this episode the evening after Arsenal lost on penalties in the Champions League final and admitting he is gutted. He still does a full look-back at May, where the studio came together to about 70 percent, vibe coding produced seven apps across the month despite heavy travel, and the expected big model updates turned out to be point releases rather than anything major. For June, he is focused on three things: where AI video storytelling goes as Google Omni and other tools make narrative quality the new differentiator, what role AI plays across the World Cup as the biggest global sporting event, particularly relevant given his ongoing work with FIFA member associations, and a packed training calendar covering Continental, the National Film and Television School, South Bank University, and TV producers across Wales and Cardiff. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes from someone doing this work every day.  

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news that has real implications for anyone working in marketing, starting with new data showing LinkedIn is now the second most cited source in AI chatbot answers for B2B queries, with plain text posts and articles making up 83% of all platform citations pulled by major AI models. He connects this directly to the news that OpenAI is rolling out mid-conversation advertising to the UK, Brazil, Japan, and other markets in the coming weeks, raising questions about what it means to share personal and professional information on what is becoming an ad platform. He also covers Uber burning through four years of AI budget in four months via Claude Code, China restricting overseas travel for private sector AI professionals it now considers national strategic assets, Goldman Sachs reversing its own research by claiming AI job displacement fears are overblown, Samsung chip workers winning a landmark wage deal tied to AI profits, and a South Korean YouTuber facing arrest for using AI to fabricate evidence that destroyed an actor's career. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis wraps up May with his monthly tool review, covering the three AI tools he actually used most outside of Whisper and his general large language model work. Google AI Studio earns its place for the second consecutive month as his first stop for app prototyping before committing credits to paid platforms like Manus or Lovable. Magnific, recently rebranded from FreePic after acquiring the platform, comes in for video generation work with a mention of its image enhancement feature that can bring old photographs up to current quality standards. The most personal pick of the three is Typeless, a voice dictation tool he introduced on Cool Tools Tuesday this month, which he uses not for its dictation but for a single navigation feature that lets him open any application by voice, reducing the hand and finger movement that has caused him daily pain for nearly twenty years. 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 answers three questions from recent training sessions, starting with a simple one about why he keeps reaching for ChatGPT Images over Midjourney even though he pays for both, and giving a direct answer that draws a clear line between what each tool is actually best at. He then tackles the question he is increasingly getting in every training room, how to get content found inside AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini rather than just Google, explaining the shift from SEO to a probability-based visibility model and the three things every marketer should be tracking. The episode closes with the question that never stops coming up, how to actually make money with AI, and Andrew's honest answer about why short-term plays are rarely sustainable and what the medium to long-term approach actually looks like. 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, leading with Cerno, a platform that turns any big question into a multi-model debate where different AI systems argue, challenge each other's reasoning, and arrive at a consolidated answer displayed on a navigable canvas. He also covers Typeless, a voice dictation tool he has added alongside Whisper primarily for its navigator feature which lets you open any app or website on your computer using only your voice, a genuine accessibility and productivity win for anyone looking to reduce time on the keyboard. The episode rounds off with Automat-ed, an AI book writing platform that goes beyond generating a manuscript to helping with course creation, marketing copy, YouTube content ideas, and author bios, making it useful even for people with no intention of publishing. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone using them in real work.

Andrew Miles Davis returns to his most popular talk format for another instalment of the good, the bad, and the ugly of generative AI. The good covers strategic planning, explaining how AI handles frameworks around vision, objectives, resources, goals, strategy, and tactics better than most people realise, and why this applies as much to planning a holiday as it does to running a business. The bad goes to the skill gap, arguing that the window to start learning AI without facing serious catch-up pressure is closing fast, and that unlike most learning curves, this one does not level off because the AI itself keeps advancing alongside the people using it. The ugly lands on attention hijacking, covering how AI-powered feeds are increasingly used to manipulate what people see, think, and feel at scale, with political and social consequences most people are experiencing without recognising the mechanism. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that give you the honest picture of where AI is heading.

Andrew Miles Davis covers one of the biggest weeks in AI news this year, starting with Google IO where over 100 announcements included a unified multimodal model, a 24/7 background AI agent called Gemini Spark, a universal shopping cart spanning YouTube and Google Search, a new creator likeness feature on YouTube, and conversational AI search built into the platform. He also covers OpenAI laying groundwork for an IPO that could value the company at one trillion dollars, Anthropic launching Claude FM as a round-the-clock ambient radio station on YouTube, Spotify and Universal Music Group announcing a landmark deal making AI-powered fan remixes legal with artists receiving a cut, and a film screening at Cannes with a total budget of half a million dollars, eighty percent of which went on AI compute. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis answers 11 randomly generated questions covering AI, digital marketing, and things you would not find on his website, including the most unnecessary purchase he has made recently, the marketing metric he thinks people obsess over despite it mattering less every year, and the strangest complaint he has ever received from a client that came because something worked too well. He also shares which AI tool he thinks will dominate in 12 months, why he considers not going all in on AI during the golden era to be the biggest mistake brands are making right now, and the one thing AI still cannot do properly in his opinion. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes covering AI and digital marketing from someone who has been in the industry for 25 years and still finds the random questions episodes the easiest ones to record.

Andrew Miles Davis continues his use case series with a focus on AI image generators, breaking down seven ways he has seen real organisations use tools like ChatGPT Images, Midjourney, and Ideogram to solve actual business problems rather than just produce impressive-looking output. From social media content and product visualisation to training materials, pitch decks, and event graphics, each use case comes with a practical framing drawn from Andrew's training sessions and client work. He also addresses the transparency question around labelling AI-generated images and the hybrid approach of using AI for post-production on real photography rather than generating from scratch. The episode closes with a line worth remembering: the businesses that create and test ideas fastest will usually beat the ones still waiting in approval chains. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes built around what AI can actually do for your work.

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, anchored by a shift he thinks is about to define the rest of 2026, the move from standalone AI tools to unified AI workspaces where multiple models, agents, memory, and automation sit in a single environment. He introduces Higgs Field Supercomputer, an expansion from the video aggregator he already pays for into a broader AI operating system that combines Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and others under one roof with shared memory and agent capabilities. He also covers Komos, an AI powered research and automation platform sitting between a large language model and an operating system, and rounds off with Guideless, a Chrome extension that records your screen workflow and automatically turns it into a narrated tutorial video ready to share or embed. Andrew is transparent that he has not tested all three himself yet, which is a useful reminder of how fast this space is moving. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday.

Andrew Miles Davis reacts to a clip of Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola being asked about AI at a press conference, breaking down four points from Guardiola's answer that he thinks cut closer to the real issues than most AI commentary does. Guardiola raises concerns about fake quotes and fabricated opinions being attributed to public figures, the industrialisation of misinformation at a scale and speed that was never previously possible, the risk of intellectual laziness as people stop thinking through problems themselves, and the simple honesty that nobody actually knows where any of this ends. Andrew uses each point to reflect on what he has been teaching in training rooms for years, including his line that AI should replace friction not thinking, and why trust and reputation are becoming survival tools rather than just marketing advantages. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that connect what is happening in AI to the way real people work, create, and communicate.

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news that stretches from the Florida attorney general launching a criminal investigation into OpenAI following a mass shooting to Meta installing tracking software on all corporate laptops with no opt-out option and factoring AI usage into staff performance reviews. He also covers the Cannes Film Festival opening its doors to AI production workflows for the first time, actors discovering their faces being placed into fabricated sexual scenes in AI-generated ads without their consent, a survey finding that 55 percent of Gen Z and millennial adults identify as AI sexual, and a repeat of the Sprout Social finding that unlabelled AI content has now become the number one brand trust issue on social media. The accountability question running through all of it is the same one Andrew has been raising in his Good Bad Ugly sessions, when something goes wrong, who is responsible. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters, every Friday in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis breaks down a study published by Anthropic analysing over one million Claude conversations from March to April 2026, focusing on what it reveals about how people are actually using AI and why the findings carry real implications for marketers, brands, and individuals. He covers the shift from AI as search engine to AI as thinking partner, the uncomfortable finding that Claude showed excessive agreement in nearly one in ten of all personal guidance conversations and in one in four relationship conversations, and what that means for anyone relying on AI to challenge their thinking rather than validate it. He also picks up on the study's implications for brand visibility, arguing that the new version of SEO is about how AI describes you when a consumer asks which company or product to choose, making brand context and AI training a competitive advantage rather than a nice to have. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that go beyond the headlines and into what AI research actually means for the way you work.

Andrew Miles Davis answers three questions from recent training sessions, starting with the one he gets asked most often across every workshop he delivers, whether the free AI plan is genuinely enough or whether the monthly subscription is worth it. His answer is direct and comes with no commercial interest behind it. He also revisits the jobs question with a different angle, arguing that the more interesting territory is not what AI cannot do but what people will still choose a human for even when AI can technically do it just as well. The final question comes from a recent vibe coding session, covering whether to do all your planning and prompting inside a tool like Google AI Studio or to use a large language model first, and why the answer has a real financial implication if you are paying per credit. 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 two significant feature updates and one new tool on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, starting with ChatGPT's new memory sources panel that shows users exactly which past conversation each piece of stored information came from, making it far easier to audit, correct, and control what the model thinks it knows. He then covers what he considers one of the most useful updates he has seen in two years, the full integration of both ChatGPT and Claude directly inside Excel, allowing users to speak or type prompts and have the model act on the spreadsheet in real time without switching between platforms. The third tool is Scrunch, a brand audit platform that evaluates how often a company or its competitors are being cited inside AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity when users prompt for something relevant to that industry. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone using them in real work.

Andrew Miles Davis breaks down the five mistakes he sees people make with AI almost every single day, drawing on years of face-to-face training sessions with marketing teams, corporates, and individuals across the UK. From giving AI zero context and expecting a tailored result, to jumping between fifteen tools and mastering none of them, to underestimating how much your own expertise and story shapes the quality of the output, each mistake is explained with the same directness Andrew brings to his training rooms. The most common and most damaging mistake he saves for number one, using AI without a clear goal or outcome, which means the model has no direction and will produce confident but generic results every time. The episode closes with a reframe that applies to anyone who has ever felt like they are simply not good at AI. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that close the gap between where most people are with AI and where they need to be.

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news that connects across a single thread of trust, starting with new Sprout Social data showing that unlabelled AI generated content has overtaken sustainability as the number one brand turn-off on social media, with nearly one in three users saying it actively damages their trust in a brand. He also covers the Oscars updating its eligibility rules to require human performances and human-authored scripts, Mark Zuckerberg's argument that most AI agents would not pass a usability test with a non-technical older person, and a Harvard Medical School study finding that OpenAI's O1 model outdiagnosed attending physicians in emergency department cases with more information. The episode rounds off with a landmark Chinese court ruling that companies cannot dismiss employees simply because AI can perform their role, and the UAE announcing plans to run half its government operations on AI agents within two years. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis opens a new series on why the golden era of AI is coming to an end, drawing on 25 years of working through every major digital opportunity window including AdWords at a penny a click, the MySpace and YouTube era, and the rise of short form content across Vine, Instagram, and TikTok. His argument is that each era ended when platforms needed to monetise, and AI is no different. In this first episode he focuses on advertising, explaining why the current experience of getting uninterrupted, unsponsored answers from large language models is historically unusual and commercially unsustainable, and why the arrival of ads will change not just the experience but the trust people place in the results they receive. He also covers the credit system shift already underway at Gemini and what the likely pricing trajectory looks like over the next two to three years. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that tell you what is actually happening in AI before everyone else catches up.

Andrew Miles Davis delivers three prompt techniques built around a single observation he has developed over years of using and teaching AI, that better prompts do not produce better answers, they produce better thinking. The first asks AI to evaluate a decision from the perspective of your future self, identifying what you might regret ignoring versus what simply will not matter in three years. The second takes any piece of content, however dry, and asks what angle would make it shareable, a prompt Andrew uses regularly in training sessions to challenge the idea that some industries are too boring to create engaging content. The third uses constraints as a creative tool, asking for ideas that must meet specific limits around budget, time, and skills, because constraints eliminate the vagueness that produces generic output. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for prompt hacks, tool reviews, and daily AI insight built for marketers who want to think differently.

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, leading with 11 Music, the new platform from 11 Labs that combines AI music discovery, creation, and remixing in one place, letting users take any AI-generated track and transform it into a completely different genre without any copyright complications. He also reviews HiNote AI, a note taker that pulls together features from tools like Notebook LM and Fathom into a more focused daily-use interface, accepting everything from PDFs and audio recordings to YouTube videos and web pages before summarising them however you need. The episode rounds off with Zight, the screen recording tool Andrew has relied on for six or seven years under its previous name Cloud App, now updated with AI transcription, annotation, and summary features that make it more useful than ever for anyone creating training content or documenting their work. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone using them in real work.

Andrew Miles Davis opens May with his monthly look-ahead, but starts with an honest review of what he said he was looking forward to in April and whether any of it actually happened. Claude Cowork barely got touched, the Mac Mini sat in its box for two months before finally being unpacked, and the two day AI course with the National Film and Television School and Amazon Prime went better than expected and is running again in Leeds and Glasgow this month. For May, Andrew is focused on finally getting his new studio space properly set up in what he describes as a large garage split into a gym, a TV room, and an office, committing to building a new vibe coded application every two to three days and documenting the process for YouTube, and watching closely for what AI updates land this month given that May has historically been when some of the biggest model leaps have been announced. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes tracking what is actually happening in AI for marketers and content creators.

Andrew Miles Davis opens May with a news episode covering one of the most significant shifts he has been predicting for months, Google moving Gemini to a credit based system and what that signals about the end of the unlimited free AI era that has defined the last two years. He also covers Taylor Swift trademarking her voice and specific phrases to legally challenge AI deepfakes, WWE confirming it is using AI and fan data to shape storylines and championship arcs, and an NFL quarterback publicly endorsing an AI cardiovascular screening tool that detects blockages years before symptoms appear. The episode rounds off with Tinder rolling out iris scanning to verify users are human, China blocking Meta's two billion dollar acquisition of Manus to keep AI built by Chinese founders out of American hands, and Google testing a conversational AI search layer inside YouTube. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis wraps up April with his monthly tool review, revealing the three AI tools he genuinely used the most outside of his permanently retired entries, with Whisper now the only tool too omnipresent to mention. ChatGPT Images 2.0 earns the top spot after being used not just for testing but in live keynote presentations to hundreds of people in the second half of the month. Google AI Studio returns to the list as Andrew gets back into vibe coding and uses it as his primary free prototyping environment before deploying anything to a paid platform. Higgs Field rounds out the three, a video aggregator he paid for on Black Friday and barely touched until April, now being used to access Seedance, Google VO, and other models in one place for spec ad work. He also announces that Claude and ChatGPT are being formally retired from the monthly list because he uses them so constantly that including them would make the exercise pointless. 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 answers three questions from his corporate training sessions, starting with how to structure prompts properly using the seven point prompt recipe he developed, covering goal, outcome, context, situation, role, format, and examples as a framework that goes beyond basic prompt engineering into what is now being called context engineering. He then tackles whether it is worth building your own CRM system using vibe coding tools instead of paying for platforms like HubSpot, giving a straight answer about when it makes sense and when it probably does not. The episode closes with the most common question in every training room he enters, which AI model is best, and why the honest answer is that for most people the model matters far less than learning to train one well. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes built around the questions real marketers are actually asking right now.

Andrew Miles Davis opens this week's Cool Tools Tuesday with a full verdict on ChatGPT Images 2.0 after a week of heavy testing, calling it his favourite AI tool of the year so far and explaining why it has pulled ahead of Ideogram for stylisation, infographics, editing, and fine detail work. He also covers Try Scotty, a newsletter aggregator that condenses multiple daily subscriptions into a single digest by identifying duplicate stories and surfacing only what is new, and rounds off with Try Clico, a Chrome extension that summarises any web page on demand and lets you highlight individual words for an instant in-page definition. All three tools are either free to trial or included in subscriptions most marketers are already paying for. 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 most popular talk format for a fourth instalment of the good, the bad, and the ugly of generative AI, this time covering one topic from each category that he thinks deserves more attention. The good makes a case for AI as a creativity booster rather than a creativity killer, drawing on two years of the AI Live show to argue that the people producing the most impressive AI work are experienced creatives adding AI to existing expertise, not replacing it. The bad covers hallucinations and the specific harm caused by AI confidently stating false information in high-stakes areas like law, medicine, and cyber security. The ugly goes to what Andrew considers the most serious long-term issue in the entire AI story, the widening of inequality between individuals, businesses, and entire nations as AI concentrates power and profit in fewer and fewer hands. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that give you the full picture, not just the highlights.

Andrew Miles Davis covers one of the busiest weeks in AI news this year, opening with two robotics breakthroughs including a humanoid robot running a half marathon faster than any human on record and a Sony robot beating a professional table tennis player under official match conditions. He breaks down the image generation battle heating up between ChatGPT Images 2.0, MidJourney 8.1, and Claude Design, gives his honest verdict on which is now his go-to tool, and covers ChatGPT's new workspace agents that let AI run scheduled tasks across an entire team. The episode also tackles an AI-generated track hitting number one on the US iTunes chart, Meta tracking employee keystrokes to train its AI models, Rishi Sunak warning about AI cutting entry-level jobs while advising the companies building that AI, and the story that genuinely stopped Andrew in his tracks, the UK cabinet minister responsible for a £500 million AI investment fund admitting she does not use AI at work. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis revisits one of his most personal episode formats, the wow moment series, looking back at what has genuinely stopped him in his tracks over the last nine to twelve months. He makes a strong case for AI video as a category-defining shift, pointing to Seedance, Veo, and Kling as the tools now producing work that is winning awards and being commissioned by real production companies, and argues that the storytelling happening behind the technology is just as significant as the tools themselves. He also covers vibe coding as a genuine revolution for non-technical people, sharing real examples of applications he has built without writing a single line of code. The most honest part of the episode is what he cannot find: a third wow moment, and what that absence might say about rising expectations and the normalisation of things that would have seemed impossible three years ago. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that track what AI is actually doing to the way we work, create, and think.