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.