In A(i) Nutshell

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news led by Meta's launch of Muse Image, a tool that allows anyone to generate AI images of real people from their public Instagram profile without notification or consent, which is already under scrutiny globally and defaults to opt-in for any public account. He also covers the story of Tilly Norwood, an entirely AI-generated actress created by UK company Pa...

Andrew Miles Davis delivers the third instalment of his golden era series, completing his argument for why 2023 to 2026 represents a genuinely unusual window of opportunity in the history of digital. After covering the absence of advertising in AI responses and the lack of meaningful regulation in previous episodes, this one focuses on the most tangible reason of all: nearly everything you can cur...

Andrew Miles Davis answers three questions from recent training sessions, starting with how long to spend using AI on a task before giving up and doing it manually, where his honest answer depends entirely on what you are doing and why planning tasks deserve far more AI time than content generation. He then addresses one of the most common misunderstandings he encounters, whether you need to activ...

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, starting with GPT Zero, a free platform with both an AI content detector and a hallucination checker that attempts to verify AI-generated claims against credible sources rather than simply flagging content as machine-written. He then covers OpenArt Vibe Director, a tool that lets you describe a video concept conversationally...

Andrew Miles Davis returns to his training insights series, covering two patterns he keeps encountering when working with corporate teams across the UK. The first is the persistent belief that longer prompts always produce better outputs, which research is beginning to contradict, with shorter and more specifically structured prompts increasingly outperforming lengthy brain dumps. He connects this...

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news that points towards several stories he thinks will keep coming back throughout the rest of the year. Ford's decision to rehire over 300 quality engineers it previously replaced with AI, bringing them back not to do their original jobs but to train the machines that failed to replace them, opens up a broader conversation about companies that moved too fas...

Andrew Miles Davis shares three prompt techniques he has been testing for the past couple of weeks and is happy recommending, starting with a deceptively simple one picked up from Reddit that instructs the model you are extremely lazy before your main prompt, producing simpler, more direct answers stripped of unnecessary complexity. The second involves scoring any comparison across user-defined cr...

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 mont...

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 keyword...

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...

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...

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 unapprove...

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...

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,...

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 a...

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week defined by AI being pulled back rather than pushed forward, starting with the US government ordering Anthropic to cut off foreign nationals from its powerful Mythos model just days after its public release, citing national security, and what that might signal about AI becoming segregated along national lines. He covers new consumer trust data showing six in ten peo...

Andrew Miles Davis gives his most direct verdict yet on the five large language models he pays for, covering ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity with an honest breakdown of what each one does well, where each one falls short, and when he actually reaches for it during a working day. He explains why ChatGPT remains his default despite its tendency to agree with him too much, why Claude...

Andrew Miles Davis answers eleven randomly generated questions in real time, covering everything from the AI claims that make him immediately suspicious to the worst business advice he ever followed, his accidental expertise in song lyrics, and what a normal working day in 2026 would look like to someone waking up from a coma since 1995. He also gives his honest take on what brands do online that...

Andrew Miles Davis covers two practical editing tools and one deliberately silly one on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday. Image Combiner AI lets you upload up to nine images, write a combined prompt, and get a single merged output, useful for anyone working with multiple source images and wanting to composite them without opening a full design suite. AI Voice Cleaner is a free background noise remov...

Andrew Miles Davis steps back from tools and tactics for one of his most personal episodes, running through the top five times AI has genuinely saved his sanity rather than just his time. The list runs from being able to ask embarrassing questions without judgment, to using AI to understand his rights when someone attempted to claim a name he had been using publicly for years, to navigating the sp...

Andrew Miles Davis covers one of the most news-heavy weeks of the year, opening with Anthropic releasing Fable Five, the first public model from its new Mythos class, the same family as the model considered too dangerous to release publicly earlier this year. He then covers a developing AI price war as Google drops its cheapest Gemini plan to five dollars a month and OpenAI signals it is consideri...

Andrew Miles Davis answers three questions from recent training sessions, starting with whether you should default to asking ChatGPT what to do in most situations and why he personally still starts with YouTube for tutorials before reaching for a large language model. He then gives his most underrated tool pick for June 2026, Copilot, explaining a genuine change of opinion over three months of dee...

Andrew Miles Davis delivers the second instalment of his series on why the golden era of AI is coming to an end, this time focusing on regulation, or more precisely, the current absence of it. He argues that the lack of oversight, while genuinely dangerous in some contexts, is also one of the defining features of the current window of opportunity, because once a regulatory body forms, whether that...

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, leading with NovaMirror, a free AI agent plugin for WordPress that lets site owners ask plain language questions about their website, debug errors, rewrite pages in specific styles, and bulk-update product catalogues without touching a line of code. He describes it as the tool he has been looking for since he started wonderin...

Andrew Miles Davis returns to his training insights series, sharing the two things he is seeing come up most consistently in corporate training sessions right now. The first is discoverability in AI, specifically how brands, freelancers, and organisations can get cited or mentioned inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot when someone asks a relevant question, a shift he describes as the most s...