In A(i) Nutshell
by Andrew Davis
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A 10-minute daily podcast about the world of Generative AI for marketers and the everyday person.
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- United Airlines Bans AI Agents From Booking Flights and Hollywood Prepares to Clone Celebrities (AI News) · 10 minAndrew Miles Davis covers a Friday the 13th AI news episode packed with unusual stories. He starts with what he calls AI clog, as councils, MPs, courts and schools are…
- You Do Not Need to Keep Up With AI, You Just Need to Keep Up With Your Job · 13 minAndrew Miles Davis explains why trying to keep up with everything happening in AI is the wrong goal for most people. After a week off, he came back to new tools, models and…
- Three Prompt Endings That Make AI Admit What It Does Not Know (Prompt Hacks) · 6 minAndrew Miles Davis shares three more prompt endings, the lines you add at the end of a prompt to get better answers from any large language model. First is "what additional…
- ChatGPT Images 2.6 Makes GIFs and Remembers What You Look Like Finally (Cool Tools 87) · 9 minAndrew Miles Davis shares three cool tools in week 87 of Cool Tools Tuesday. First is the ChatGPT Images 2.6 update, which is the main reason he still uses ChatGPT. It is faster…
- The Plot Twist I Lived Through at MySpace Is Happening Again · 12 minAndrew Miles Davis takes you back 20 years to MySpace UK, when people asked whether social media was a fad and why he left the BBC to join a website. He explains why he has…
- Companies Are Rehiring the People They Replaced With AI (AI News) · 9 minAndrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news that is mostly about work. He starts with ChatGPT's new image update that turns prompts or photos into animated GIFs. Then he looks at…
- Using AI Every Day Does Not Make You Good at It and These Five Mistakes Show Why · 11 minAndrew Miles Davis builds this episode around a line from a workshop attendee, who said she uses AI every day but does not feel she is good at it. He breaks down five mistakes he…
- Does AI Make Us Lazy, Will It Steal My Job and How Do I Write Better Prompts (FAQs) · 8 minAndrew Miles Davis answers three questions from his training sessions in this fortnightly FAQ episode. First, does AI make us lazy? Andrew says yes, but not automatically. Using…
- Granola Now Does Voice Dictation for Free and Ideogram Is Back With Vectors (Cool Tools 86) · 11 minAndrew Miles Davis shares three cool tools for Cool Tools Tuesday. First is a big update to Granola, the note taker that does not need an invite to your call. Granola has now…
- What I Am Looking Forward To In November · 7 minAndrew Miles Davis shares what he is looking forward to in November. First is the new Grand Theft Auto, which he has waited over a decade for. Andrew explains where he thinks AI…
- Websites Are Locking Out AI Agents and the AI Graveyard Keeps Growing (AI News) · 11 minAndrew Miles Davis covers a quiet week of AI releases with some big stories underneath. He starts with the AI graveyard, a running list of AI startups that have failed, including…
- The Top 3 Tools I Have Used Most In October · 7 minAndrew Miles Davis shares the AI tools he used the most in October. He leaves out ChatGPT and Whisper Flow because he uses them every month. First is Claude, which he says has…
- Three Prompt Endings That Make Every AI Answer More Useful (Prompt Hacks) · 7 minAndrew Miles Davis shares three prompt endings, the short lines you add at the end of a prompt to get better answers from AI. First is "turn this into a fill-in-the-blank…
- Three Tools to Write Better, Ace Job Interviews and Record Your Screen (Cool Tools Tuesday 85) · 10 minAndrew Miles Davis shares three cool tools in week 85 of Cool Tools Tuesday. First is Editly, a writing tool that corrects, edits, rewrites and translates your text, with a focus…
- My Top 5 Red Flags That Worry Me Most About Generative AI (Part 1) · 11 minAndrew Miles Davis counts down his top five AI red flags from the bad part of his Good, Bad and Ugly talk, the things that affect you or your company rather than society. At…
- Anthropic Joins the Personal AI Agent Race While Barclays Cuts 5,000 Jobs (AI News) · 9 minAndrew Miles Davis covers a Friday news episode led by the next stage of AI, the personal agent. Anthropic has joined X, Meta and OpenAI in launching one, and Andrew explains why…
- AI Might Be The Greatest 80/20 Tool We've Ever Had... But There's A Catch · 10 minAndrew Miles Davis combines two productivity ideas from The 4-Hour Work Week with AI. Parkinson's law says work expands to fill the time available. Pareto's law, the 80/20…
- Can AI Actually Reduce Stress? (FAQs) · 7 minAndrew Miles Davis answers three questions from his recent training sessions in this fortnightly FAQ episode. First, can AI reduce stress and burnout? He says it depends, but AI…
- This Tool Reads Loads Of YouTube Videos So You Do Not Have To Watch To Get The Answer (Cool Tools 84) · 10 minAndrew Miles Davis shares three very different cool tools for Cool Tools Tuesday. First is Veridive, a site with a Deep Query feature that searches dozens of YouTube videos on…
- Why Paying More for AI Now Gets You Less (Pet Peeves) · 10 minAndrew Miles Davis is back with another AI pet peeves episode, the monthly look at three things that annoy him about generative AI. First up is ChatGPT's lack of a "last…
- Nicolas Cage Refused to Sign an AI Waiver and It Could Cost Him Work (AI News) · 8 minAndrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news led by entertainment, starting with Nicolas Cage refusing to sign an AI waiver connected to an Amazon Spider-Noir series. He suggests…
- If Your AI Could Notice One Thing for You Tomorrow Without Being Asked, What Would It Be (Personal AI Agents)? · 10 minAndrew Miles Davis explains why personal AI agents, such as Meta's Muse and Grokbot, are the biggest shift in generative AI right now. He sets out three stages. Chatbots wait for…
- Three Prompt Endings That Stop AI From Guessing and Make It Ask You First (Prompt Hacks) · 9 minAndrew Miles Davis resets his prompt hacks series around one idea, that what you add to the end of a prompt now matters more than the prompt itself, because endings give the…
- This Free Tool Turns Your ChatGPT Chats Into a To Do List (Cool Tools 83) · 7 minAndrew Miles Davis covers three tools on week 83 of Cool Tools Tuesday. He starts with Note It Hub, which takes a long chat, finds the to dos scattered through it, and turns them…
- I Spent Ten Days With No Phone and No Talking and Here Is What It Taught Me (Random Questions) · 11 minAndrew Miles Davis answers eleven randomly generated questions in his favourite monthly format. On the AI side, he says the job he would be most nervous about AI doing is any…
- Meta Muse Is Building a Profile on People Who Never Signed Up and an AI Book Got Caught Making Up Quotes (AI News) · 10 minAndrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news that mixes useful new features with some uncomfortable warnings. He leads with ChatGPT's new Intelligent UI, which decides how best to…
- She Paid £30k On An Influencer Degree. Here Is Why!! · 9 minAndrew Miles Davis uses a BBC story about a 21 year old graduate who spent £30,000 on a content creation degree to ask a bigger question about AI learning. If you spend hours…
- Will Your Next Manager Be an AI and Who Takes the Blame When It Gets It Wrong (FAQs) · 7 minAndrew Miles Davis answers three questions from recent training sessions and keynotes. He starts with whether your next manager could be AI, concluding that it could handle…
- Ahrefs Now Has a Free Tool That Shows How Often AI Mentions Your Brand (Cool Tools 82) · 10 minAndrew Miles Davis marks week 82 of Cool Tools Tuesday by revisiting Napkin AI, a visual graphics tool he first covered in episode two, which has found new relevance with a…
- Pay With Money, Pay With Ads, or Pay With Reduced Access. Those Are Your Three Options Now · 10 minAndrew Miles Davis argues that the real story behind OpenAI's new $500 a month ChatGPT plan is not the price itself but the reduced allowance quietly applied to the existing $200…
- OpenAI Launched Dot to Take On Meta Muse and the Difference Between Answers and Action Is the Whole Story (AI News) · 12 minAndrew Miles Davis covers a week of releases that somehow topped the previous one, led by OpenAI launching Dot, an always-on assistant that takes action rather than just…
- What I Am Looking Forward To In October · 10 minAndrew Miles Davis opens October by reviewing a genuinely productive September, where a return to full training routine, quiet progress developing the Story Lens into proper…
- I Would Actually Pay for Meta Muse and I Never Thought I Would Say That About Meta · 9 minAndrew Miles Davis wraps up September with his monthly tool review, led by Meta's Muse, an agentic assistant he had held off testing for a while given his earlier frustration…
- Your Personal AI Assistant Might Live Inside iMessage Sooner Than You Think (Cool Tools 81) · 10 minAndrew Miles Davis covers three quick, self-explanatory tools on week 81 of Cool Tools Tuesday. He starts with Canva's AI Title Generator, a feature surfaced by an attendee in a…
- My Top Five Large Language Models Going Into the Final Quarter of 2026 and Why · 11 minAndrew Miles Davis ranks the five large language models he pays for as of 28 September 2026, after being asked the question twice in a single week. Gemini lands at number five…
- OpenAI Anthropic Meta Google and X All Dropped Major Releases in the Same Week (AI News) · 11 minAndrew Miles Davis covers what he calls the busiest AI news week of the year, opening with an unprecedented wave of simultaneous releases from OpenAI's GPT 6 Sol and GPT 6 Lunar…
- Every Advertising Platform Starts Helpful Then Agendas Change and ChatGPT Will Be No Different · 9 minAndrew Miles Davis tackles what he considers a genuinely pivotal moment for the golden era of AI, OpenAI's newly published proposal for conversational advertising inside ChatGPT…
- Can AI Actually Reduce Stress and Burnout or Does It Just Create More Work (FAQs) · 8 minAndrew Miles Davis returns to frequently asked questions after focusing on daily LinkedIn video content for the past few weeks, tackling three questions from recent sessions. He…
- Finally I Have Found A Tool For Apple Notes (Cool Tools 80) · 12 minAndrew Miles Davis marks 80 weeks of Cool Tools Tuesday with three picks, leading with Meta's Muse, an agentic AI tool built into a WhatsApp-style messaging interface that…
- Three Hikers Blamed AI for Getting Stranded on a Mountain But That Is Not What Actually Happened · 8 minAndrew Miles Davis goes deeper into a story he first covered on the Friday news, three novice hikers stranded overnight on Mount Shasta after relying heavily on Gemini for route…
- Get AI to Attack Its Own Naming Suggestions Before You Pick a Favourite · 9 minAndrew Miles Davis argues that when using AI to generate names for products, services, or campaigns, most people make the same mistake by asking for more options rather than…
- Three Hikers Nearly Died on a Mountain Because Gemini Gave Them the Wrong Directions (AI News) · 9 minAndrew Miles Davis leads this week with a genuinely alarming story from Mount Shasta, where three hikers ignored official safety guidance to turn back by midday after receiving…
- Codex Made My Problem Worse Then Told Me I Was Out of Credits (Pet Peeves) · 11 minAndrew Miles Davis returns to pet peeves for the first time since July with three genuinely fresh frustrations. He starts with training projects and chats in both ChatGPT and…
- Three Years of Daily AI Podcasting and Here Is What I Have Learnt (In AI Nutshell 3rd Birthday) · 12 minAndrew Miles Davis marks the third anniversary of In AI Nutshell by reflecting on what daily podcasting has actually taught him rather than covering the latest news or tools. He…
- Never Know What to Type Into Suno Again. This Free Tool Builds the Perfect Music Prompt For You (Cool Tools 79) · 10 minAndrew Miles Davis marks 79 weeks of Cool Tools Tuesday with three specialist tools, starting with ClerkAI, a bookkeeping assistant that prepares accounts for accountants by…
- Not Everything on Your To-Do List Needs to Get Done. Here Is the Framework That Decides What Does. (Do Delay Delegate Delete) · 9 minAndrew Miles Davis breaks down a productivity system he has used and taught for years but never fully explained in detail, built around four decisions for anything that lands on…
- Apple Finally Fought Back in AI and ElevenLabs Just Signed Its First Major Label Deal (AI News) · 10 minAndrew Miles Davis covers a genuinely massive week in AI news, opening with OpenAI's double release of ChatGPT 6 Astra, already being called the most intelligent and aligned…
- What Is Something I Would Never Trust AI to Decide For Me (Random Questions) · 11 minAndrew Miles Davis answers eleven randomly generated questions in his favourite monthly format, covering the most memorable being asked what he would never trust AI to choose for…
- Three Prompt Endings That Take Any Answer From White Belt to Black Belt (AI Prompt Hacks) · 8 minAndrew Miles Davis returns to prompt hacks with a shift in focus, arguing that as prompting fundamentals become second nature for most people, the real differentiator is what…
- This AI Meeting Assistant Records Without Ever Joining the Call as a Bot (Cool Tools 78) · 8 minAndrew Miles Davis marks 78 weeks of Cool Tools Tuesday with three tools recommended directly by listeners rather than sourced by him, with no affiliate or sponsorship ties to…
