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In A(i) Nutshell

Andrew Davis

A 10-minute daily podcast about the world of Generative AI for marketers and the everyday person.

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Today · 9 min
What I Am looking Forward to in September
Andrew Miles Davis opens September with an honest review of August, where the YouTube channel finally launched with two videos live, and ChatGPT voice conversations during daily dog walks became a genuine part of his working process for developing ideas before reaching his desk. For September he is bringing his backlog of thousands of training questions accumulated over fifteen years of face-to-face sessions to LinkedIn video, alongside a return to a full training and keynote schedule after a deliberately quieter August. The centrepiece of the month is the public launch of his Story Lens Method, a framework built around the idea that everything shared online tells a story whether intentionally or not, drawing on one of seven core story structures to help people navigate change, judgement, and decision-making in an AI-driven world. Having delivered variations of this system with organisations for years, Andrew describes finally building it out fully over the summer as genuinely exciting, a rare reaction for him. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute AI insight and to follow the Story Lens Method rollout across podcast, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
Yesterday · 8 min
Turn Messy Spreadsheets Into Insights in Seconds With This Copilot Excel Feature (Cool Tools 77)
Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, leading with a genuine change of opinion on Copilot's integration with Excel, which he had previously dismissed after a poor experience with a similar feature in Gemini a year earlier. He walks through five practical use cases including turning messy spreadsheets into instant insights, generating charts and pivot tables from plain language requests, writing formulas without needing to know the syntax, automatically cleaning data and standardising UK date formats, and summarising what has changed across workbook versions, concluding that the native Copilot integration outperforms both ChatGPT and Claude's Excel connectors. He also covers Umind.com's prompt library, a free daily-updated resource of trending prompts across images, video, and text, and IdeaVideo.ai, a free video generation aggregator giving access to Seedance, Veo, Kling, and other major models, positioned as a low-stakes starting point for marketers wanting to build video skills without committing to a paid platform. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone testing them in real work.
Monday · 10 min
The Top 3 Tools I Have Used Most In August
Andrew Miles Davis wraps up a deliberately quieter August, using the extra time away from training to properly test three tools that shaped his month outside of his permanently retired ChatGPT and Whisper Flow. Claude Design handled the full front end of his new website, thestorylensmethod.com, built from a rough description in under an hour, and impressed him further with animation capabilities he plans to bring to LinkedIn content given the cost and complexity of sourcing motion graphics manually. Codex handled the back end, hosting the site directly and removing the traditionally fiddly process of domain purchasing, hosting, and name server configuration. Copilot rounds out the three, with Andrew revisiting a tool he had previously written off after a poor experience with Gemini and Sheets, now praising its native integration across Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, particularly for small formatting tasks he can now handle entirely by voice given his RSI. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for a daily ten-minute update on what is actually worth using, from someone building real things with these tools every month.
Friday · 9 min
Dr Dre Says AI Speeds Up Production But His Taste Still Decides What Makes the Final Cut (AI News August 2026)
Andrew Miles Davis covers a relatively quiet news week that still carried some significant stories, starting with new research suggesting AI written language now leaves fingerprints across roughly a third of the web, prompting a wider question about what happens to the value of original thinking as competent, AI-polished copy becomes the norm. He covers Hollywood creatives being paid to train AI systems on the exact skills that once made them employable, drawing a direct line to Ford's earlier decision to rehire staff it had replaced with AI in order to train the technology properly, and Dr Dre's public comments on using AI in music production, arguing that taste and judgement remain the irreplaceable skill even as AI speeds up experimentation. Other stories include New York enforcing disclosure rules for AI-generated influencers appearing in advertising, Twitch streamers suing Amazon over claims their content trained AI without consent, YouTube testing a prompt-based custom homepage feed, and AI identifying hidden patterns in breast cancer data that could help doctors tailor treatment more effectively. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.
Thursday · 11 min
Why Smart People Completely Disagree About AI and What to Do About It (Story Lens Method)
Andrew Miles Davis continues his Story Lens video series by tackling why intelligent, well-informed people can look at the exact same evidence around AI and reach entirely opposite conclusions. Using the Moneyball story of traditional baseball scouts versus data-driven analysis as his central example, he argues that disagreement is rarely about who has the facts and far more often about which facts each side considers important. This lands in what he calls the Divide stage of his Story Lens framework, one of seven stages built around the "stranger comes to town" story structure, where disruption forces people into genuinely different readings of the same change rather than clean categories of understanding versus not understanding. Drawing on his own decision to leave the BBC for MySpace in 2006, a move that looked reckless to almost everyone at the time, Andrew offers a five-question method for evaluating competing arguments without immediately picking a side, including using AI itself to stress-test your own position rather than outsource the decision entirely. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute AI insight and to the YouTube channel for the full Story Lens series.
August 26 · 11 min
Claude Overtook ChatGPT as the Most Important Tool for Marketers and Here Is Why That Matters (Marketing Report Breakdown)
Andrew Miles Davis breaks down a recent Social Media Examiner marketing report, walking through the key statistics with his own honest reaction to each. Daily AI usage among marketers has jumped from 37% to 73% in two years, while a genuinely striking finding shows Claude has overtaken ChatGPT as marketers' most important single tool despite ChatGPT still leading on raw usage, a shift Andrew traces back to Anthropic's public stance against government surveillance and weapons work last year. He highlights that 85% of marketers now pay for AI tools, with the majority spending their own money, reinforcing his ongoing argument that the era of doing everything for free is ending and people need to shift their mental model toward paying for AI the way they pay for a phone bill. He also covers the gap between interest and adoption in AI video, where the desire to learn far outpaces actual usage, and the significant gap between AI agent hype and real-world adoption, with only 11% of respondents using them regularly despite widespread interest. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes breaking down what's actually happening in AI marketing data.
August 25 · 8 min
ChatGPT Images Can Now Do Transparent Backgrounds and It Looks Just as Good as Canva (Cool Tools 76)
Andrew Miles Davis marks 76 weeks of Cool Tools Tuesday with three picks, leading with Happy Shrimp, an AI music generator that has become one of the most talked-about tools of the summer despite its unusual name, competing directly with Suno, Udio, and Producer AI. Running his standard test prompt, Andrew found it produced strong results on the first attempt, making it a genuinely good starting point for anyone new to AI music generation. He also covers a quietly significant update to ChatGPT Images, which now supports proper transparent background generation, removing the need to route images through Canva for background removal and matching that quality directly inside the platform. The episode closes with FindOutMy.com, a lighter tool that analyses uploaded photos and gives feedback on posture, presentation, style, and physical presence, which Andrew tests on himself with mixed seriousness while flagging it purely as entertainment rather than anything to take too literally. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone testing them in real work.
August 24 · 10 min
The Real Reason AI Keeps Forgetting What You Told It and How to Fix It (AI Memory Explained)
Andrew Miles Davis tackles a problem that has been genuinely frustrating him, AI's tendency to forget context that matters even after hours of collaborative work, and breaks it down into three distinct levels of memory. Global memory covers broad, stable facts about a person that reasonably follow them across every conversation, but cannot hold detailed project context without becoming unwieldy and contextually inappropriate. Project memory creates a boundary around a specific piece of work, letting AI hold format, audience, and history for something like a podcast or campaign, but still leaves the AI deciding what within that boundary actually deserves to be remembered. The third and most reliable level involves building an external memory system, real files and notes that the user controls and updates after each session, which AI reads as a record rather than relies on recall for. Andrew shares his own practical example of maintaining a simple status file for major projects that gets updated after every working session, eliminating the need to hope AI remembered the right details. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that dig into how to actually get better results from the AI tools you already use.
August 21 · 10 min
Anthropic's CEO's Own Wife Barely Shows Up in Claude's Training Data and That Should Worry You (AI News)
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.
August 20 · 11 min
When Will Using AI at Work Feel as Normal as Sending an Email (YouTube Edition)
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.
August 19 · 10 min
If AI Disappeared Tomorrow This Is the Main Thing I Would Actually Miss (Random Questions)
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.
August 18 · 10 min
I Built a Website in Claude Design in Under 30 Minutes & I'm Genuinely Impressed (Cool Tools 75)
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.
August 17 · 10 min
Nobody Told Me How Angry AI Would Make Me So Here Are 5 Red Flags Worth Watching (Top 5)
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.
August 14 · 11 min
Claude Is About to Hide Invisible Watermarks in Everything It Writes (AI News)
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.
August 13 · 8 min
The Best Prompts Are Not the Prompt. They Are What You Add at the End. (AI Prompt Hacks)
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.
August 12 · 10 min
Master These 12 Things and You Have Mastered 95% of AI (AI Essentials 2026)
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.
August 11 · 8 min
One of My Favourite AI Tools Just Added a Game Changing Feature (Cool Tools 74)
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.
August 10 · 7 min
Is Microsoft Copilot Actually Better Than ChatGPT? My Honest Answer (FAQs)
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.
August 9 · 10 min
Netflix has quietly used AI across 300 titles this year (AI News)
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.
August 6 · 7 min
Is MySpace Actually Making a Comeback Due To AI Algorithms?
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.

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