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.