In A(i) Nutshell

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.

Andrew Miles Davis shares three prompt techniques built around a simple observation from years of training sessions: most people get poor AI results not because the tools are bad, but because they never challenge them. The first prompt, adding "don't tell me how to do it yet" to any strategic brief, forces the model to pause, ask clarifying questions, and produce answers with more depth. The second turns any AI output into a debate by asking the model to argue against its own recommendation, revealing weaknesses before you act on the advice. The third uses structured clarifying questions to surface the real goal, real constraints, and real timeline before any plan is built. All three are immediately usable and explained with real examples from Andrew's own prompting sessions. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for prompt hacks, tool reviews, and daily AI insight built for marketers who want better results.

Andrew Miles Davis asks whether anyone can genuinely compete with Google when it comes to free AI tools, and uses three this week's Cool Tools Tuesday picks to make the case. He starts with Vibe Casting, an AI podcast generator that impressed him with its research but disappointed on audio quality, before explaining where it does have a genuine use case as a personal learning tool. He then highlights the mind map feature inside Notebook LM, which he showcased to two separate training groups last week to strong feedback, explaining why feeding AI structured information before asking for ideas produces far better results than prompting from scratch. The episode closes with Google AI Studio's new text to speech model, which goes beyond standard AI voice generation by helping you script for tone, emotion, and pacing rather than accepting flat monotone output. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone using them in real training sessions.

Andrew Miles Davis answers 11 randomly generated questions covering his working habits, honest marketing opinions, and the AI outputs that have genuinely stopped him in his tracks over the years. He makes a direct case against the content is king myth, arguing that in a digital world where distribution determines visibility, great content without promotion is just a hobby, and explains why he will openly challenge anyone who repeats the saying without qualification. He also talks through vibe coding as the AI use case he finds most practically useful right now, the role AI has played in managing his RSI, and the random skill of near-perfect music lyric recall that occasionally comes in useful during training sessions. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for a daily ten-minute episode covering AI, marketing, and the unfiltered opinions that come from 25 years in the industry.

Andrew Miles Davis covers one of the busiest weeks in AI news so far this year, leading with Anthropic's decision to withhold a newly built model called Mephos after determining it poses too great a security risk to release publicly, alongside the launch of Claude Opus 4.7 with improved document handling and visual processing. He also covers Seedance going live globally outside the US, LinkedIn opening its AI-powered conversational search to all users including free accounts, and Mark Zuckerberg building a photorealistic AI version of himself for staff to consult without booking a meeting. The episode rounds off with Grok continuing to generate sexualised deepfakes despite public promises to stop, a man who used AI-generated fake letters to try to shut down a London LGBTQ venue, and a shoe brand that abandoned footwear entirely to become an AI infrastructure company and saw its stock rise 580% in a week. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis returns to one of his most popular recurring formats, the pet peeves episode, sharing three things that are genuinely frustrating him about generative AI right now. He starts with the algorithm trap, explaining why he has become almost afraid to click on anything on social media knowing it will flood his feed for weeks. He then calls out Claude specifically for a pattern he has noticed repeatedly where the model agrees to follow trained instructions, confirms them back, produces good outputs briefly, and then quietly reverts to doing what it wants instead. The third peeve covers AI tools refusing simple image requests with vague or inconsistent reasoning, often in the same chat where the same request was completed minutes earlier. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that tell you what AI is actually like to use, not just what it can do.

Andrew Miles Davis answers three questions submitted by attendees of his corporate training sessions, including a practical breakdown of how to explain AI tools to someone with no technical background using analogies drawn from whatever the listener already knows well. He gives a candid answer to what genuinely worries him most about the direction AI is heading, pointing not to the technology itself but to the motivations of the people building it, and explains why he continues to teach and use AI despite those concerns. He also maps out every series he runs on the podcast and reveals which formats he enjoys most and which take the most work to put together. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes covering the questions real people are actually asking about AI right now.

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, starting with PicLumen, a free AI image and video studio that has been his go-to recommendation in training sessions for months and has recently expanded well beyond its origins as the best free access point for the Flux image model. He also breaks down Google Lyria 3.0, the music generator sitting quietly inside Gemini that most users are missing entirely, and rounds off with Language Tool, a free AI grammar checker with a Chrome extension that Andrew argues now does more for free than Grammarly does. All three are either free or part of tools people are already paying for, making this a particularly practical episode for marketers watching their AI spend. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday explained in plain language with honest verdicts.

Andrew Miles Davis kicks off a new series drawing on patterns he has observed across thousands of face-to-face training sessions, starting with two of the most common reasons people struggle with AI tools despite genuinely wanting to use them well. The first is an expectation problem, where people go in expecting the accuracy of a database, the creativity of a human, and the consistency of software, and then lose patience when AI delivers something messier than that. The second is a habit carried over from two decades of search engine use, treating large language models like Google by typing short queries, reading the first answer, and moving on. Andrew argues that shifting these two mindsets alone would improve most people's results overnight. 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 this week's AI news with a focus on what it means for marketers, starting with new data showing bot traffic now accounts for over half of incoming visits for some publishers as AI crawlers scrape content to train large language models without permission. He explains the shift from SEO to GEO, generative engine optimisation, and why marketers are already gaming the new system in ways that could poison the quality of information AI models produce. He also covers a MIT and Stanford study finding that AI systems frequently prioritise agreement over accuracy, a behaviour known as sycophancy that makes training your model to push back more important than ever. The episode rounds off with the impact of AI short-form video tools on the editors who built careers clipping long-form content for influencers. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that actually matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

Andrew Miles Davis shares three prompt extensions that consistently produce sharper, more useful answers from any large language model, starting with a technique that forces the AI to identify what you might be getting wrong before it even answers. He also breaks down a comparison framework that goes beyond asking what competitors do, by asking what a third player would do to beat them both, and rounds off with a prompt built around the idea that success leaves clues, using reverse engineering to unpack how someone or a company achieved a specific result. All three are practical, immediately usable, and explained with real examples from Andrew's own prompting sessions. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for prompt hacks, tool reviews, and daily AI insight built for marketers.

Andrew Miles Davis runs through the five AI tools he genuinely cannot work without right now, and the list has shifted since he last covered it. MidJourney holds on by a single use case, Fathom earns its place as a non-negotiable for every call, and ChatGPT makes a surprise return to the top three after a spell in the wilderness. Claude slips from number one to number two following a pattern Andrew has been tracking for weeks, where the model ignores trained instructions rather than following them. And sitting at the top, unchanged, is Whisper, the voice dictation tool Andrew credits as the single biggest daily time-saver in his toolkit. 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 is back after the Easter break with three Cool Tools Tuesday picks, led by Suno 5.5's new voice cloning feature that lets you record your singing voice and use it to generate songs in any style from grime to opera. He also covers Adobe Firefly's free AI image upscaler, which he rates as one of the most reliable free options for restoring and enhancing older or lower quality images without distorting the original. The third tool is Air Music, a platform with a range of music generation features including instrumental creation, vocal removal, and a paid music video generator that is worth knowing about if you regularly work with AI-generated audio. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday, explained in plain language with real use cases.

Andrew Miles Davis kicks off a new series designed to answer the question that comes up in almost every training session he delivers, which is not how a tool works but what it is actually for. Starting with AI music generators like Suno, Udio, and Producer AI, he breaks down five genuine business use cases including using AI-generated music as a content bed, running creative split tests in paid ads, repurposing video content across platforms with tailored soundtracks, and making internal presentations land better with music that actually gets attention. The standout example comes from a FIFA session where the exercise produced a song a national women's football team adopted as their own. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that move past the hype and focus on what AI can actually do for your work.

Andrew Miles Davis opens April with a look at three things he is genuinely excited about this month, starting with his new Mac Mini which he bought primarily to properly test Claude's Cowork desktop agent feature and explore real use cases he can teach. He reflects honestly on missing his YouTube goals two months running, explains the echo problem in his new studio space, and sets out why this month feels different. The headline announcement is a two day AI training course he is delivering in partnership with the National Film and Television School and Amazon Prime, running across Cardiff, London, Glasgow, and Leeds, marking the longest AI course he has ever delivered. He also celebrates passing 600 podcast episodes and sets his sights on reaching 900 by the end of the year. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten minute AI updates from someone who tests everything before he teaches it.

In this Cool Tools Tuesday episode, Andrew Miles Davis finally features a tool he has been recommending to clients and charities for years but has somehow never covered on the show, Lumen5, a video creation platform that turns blog posts and URLs into polished social videos automatically by matching text highlights to images, footage, and a music bed. He also breaks down Comic Ink, a dedicated AI comic book generator that impressed him for its character consistency and generous free plan, and rounds off with Renamer.ai, a file renaming tool that uses AI to bulk rename screenshots, documents, and photos so you can actually find them again. All three tools have usable free plans and practical applications for marketers working without a design or video team. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday, tested and explained in plain language.

At the end of every month, Andrew breaks down the three AI tools he has actually used the most, and this month marks a notable shift with ChatGPT dropping off the list entirely for the first time as Claude takes over as his primary large language model. He explains why he is still in the honeymoon period with Claude, what he has been testing with the Cowork feature, and why the patience he extends to a newer tool reveals something important about trust and consistency in AI. Perplexity holds its place as his go-to for reliable answers, and MidJourney version 8 earns its spot purely on the strength of its stylisation capabilities for presentation work. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for a daily ten minutes of practical AI insight from someone using these tools in real client work every day.