In A(i) Nutshell

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of news that includes a genuinely historic internet milestone, with a cybersecurity report confirming that automated bot traffic has for the first time surpassed human traffic online, with AI crawlers growing eight times faster than human web activity in the past year alone. He connects this directly to what it means for content creators and marketers who are still...

Andrew Miles Davis delivers three prompt hacks built around a single observation that keeps coming up in his training sessions, that the people getting the most from AI are not the ones using it to produce more content, they are the ones using it to think better. The first prompt reframes a fear into a growth opportunity and asks for a pep talk in your own style, drawing on the idea that most fear...

Andrew Miles Davis pulls back the curtain on the complete workflow behind In AI Nutshell, answering one of the questions he gets most often in training sessions, how he actually uses AI to produce a daily ten-minute podcast approaching 700 episodes. He walks through his monthly content calendar planning, how he batches recordings, why he never records on the morning an episode goes out, and exactl...

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, anchored by a question he finds himself asking more and more when he comes across new AI products: is this a genuinely differentiated tool or just something ChatGPT could replicate with a good prompt? He uses Thumbnail Creator as the case study, explaining what it does well while being direct about why he is not sure how tool...

Andrew Miles Davis opens June in a rare moment of honesty, recording this episode the evening after Arsenal lost on penalties in the Champions League final and admitting he is gutted. He still does a full look-back at May, where the studio came together to about 70 percent, vibe coding produced seven apps across the month despite heavy travel, and the expected big model updates turned out to be po...

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news that has real implications for anyone working in marketing, starting with new data showing LinkedIn is now the second most cited source in AI chatbot answers for B2B queries, with plain text posts and articles making up 83% of all platform citations pulled by major AI models. He connects this directly to the news that OpenAI is rolling out mid-conversati...

Andrew Miles Davis wraps up May with his monthly tool review, covering the three AI tools he actually used most outside of Whisper and his general large language model work. Google AI Studio earns its place for the second consecutive month as his first stop for app prototyping before committing credits to paid platforms like Manus or Lovable. Magnific, recently rebranded from FreePic after acquiri...

Andrew Miles Davis answers three questions from recent training sessions, starting with a simple one about why he keeps reaching for ChatGPT Images over Midjourney even though he pays for both, and giving a direct answer that draws a clear line between what each tool is actually best at. He then tackles the question he is increasingly getting in every training room, how to get content found inside...

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, leading with Cerno, a platform that turns any big question into a multi-model debate where different AI systems argue, challenge each other's reasoning, and arrive at a consolidated answer displayed on a navigable canvas. He also covers Typeless, a voice dictation tool he has added alongside Whisper primarily for its navigato...

Andrew Miles Davis returns to his most popular talk format for another instalment of the good, the bad, and the ugly of generative AI. The good covers strategic planning, explaining how AI handles frameworks around vision, objectives, resources, goals, strategy, and tactics better than most people realise, and why this applies as much to planning a holiday as it does to running a business. The bad...

Andrew Miles Davis covers one of the biggest weeks in AI news this year, starting with Google IO where over 100 announcements included a unified multimodal model, a 24/7 background AI agent called Gemini Spark, a universal shopping cart spanning YouTube and Google Search, a new creator likeness feature on YouTube, and conversational AI search built into the platform. He also covers OpenAI laying g...

Andrew Miles Davis answers 11 randomly generated questions covering AI, digital marketing, and things you would not find on his website, including the most unnecessary purchase he has made recently, the marketing metric he thinks people obsess over despite it mattering less every year, and the strangest complaint he has ever received from a client that came because something worked too well. He al...

Andrew Miles Davis continues his use case series with a focus on AI image generators, breaking down seven ways he has seen real organisations use tools like ChatGPT Images, Midjourney, and Ideogram to solve actual business problems rather than just produce impressive-looking output. From social media content and product visualisation to training materials, pitch decks, and event graphics, each use...

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, anchored by a shift he thinks is about to define the rest of 2026, the move from standalone AI tools to unified AI workspaces where multiple models, agents, memory, and automation sit in a single environment. He introduces Higgs Field Supercomputer, an expansion from the video aggregator he already pays for into a broader AI...

Andrew Miles Davis reacts to a clip of Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola being asked about AI at a press conference, breaking down four points from Guardiola's answer that he thinks cut closer to the real issues than most AI commentary does. Guardiola raises concerns about fake quotes and fabricated opinions being attributed to public figures, the industrialisation of misinformation at a scale...

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news that stretches from the Florida attorney general launching a criminal investigation into OpenAI following a mass shooting to Meta installing tracking software on all corporate laptops with no opt-out option and factoring AI usage into staff performance reviews. He also covers the Cannes Film Festival opening its doors to AI production workflows for the f...

Andrew Miles Davis breaks down a study published by Anthropic analysing over one million Claude conversations from March to April 2026, focusing on what it reveals about how people are actually using AI and why the findings carry real implications for marketers, brands, and individuals. He covers the shift from AI as search engine to AI as thinking partner, the uncomfortable finding that Claude sh...

Andrew Miles Davis answers three questions from recent training sessions, starting with the one he gets asked most often across every workshop he delivers, whether the free AI plan is genuinely enough or whether the monthly subscription is worth it. His answer is direct and comes with no commercial interest behind it. He also revisits the jobs question with a different angle, arguing that the more...

Andrew Miles Davis covers two significant feature updates and one new tool on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, starting with ChatGPT's new memory sources panel that shows users exactly which past conversation each piece of stored information came from, making it far easier to audit, correct, and control what the model thinks it knows. He then covers what he considers one of the most useful updates...

Andrew Miles Davis breaks down the five mistakes he sees people make with AI almost every single day, drawing on years of face-to-face training sessions with marketing teams, corporates, and individuals across the UK. From giving AI zero context and expecting a tailored result, to jumping between fifteen tools and mastering none of them, to underestimating how much your own expertise and story sha...

Andrew Miles Davis covers a week of AI news that connects across a single thread of trust, starting with new Sprout Social data showing that unlabelled AI generated content has overtaken sustainability as the number one brand turn-off on social media, with nearly one in three users saying it actively damages their trust in a brand. He also covers the Oscars updating its eligibility rules to requir...

Andrew Miles Davis opens a new series on why the golden era of AI is coming to an end, drawing on 25 years of working through every major digital opportunity window including AdWords at a penny a click, the MySpace and YouTube era, and the rise of short form content across Vine, Instagram, and TikTok. His argument is that each era ended when platforms needed to monetise, and AI is no different. In...

Andrew Miles Davis delivers three prompt techniques built around a single observation he has developed over years of using and teaching AI, that better prompts do not produce better answers, they produce better thinking. The first asks AI to evaluate a decision from the perspective of your future self, identifying what you might regret ignoring versus what simply will not matter in three years. Th...

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, leading with 11 Music, the new platform from 11 Labs that combines AI music discovery, creation, and remixing in one place, letting users take any AI-generated track and transform it into a completely different genre without any copyright complications. He also reviews HiNote AI, a note taker that pulls together features from...

Andrew Miles Davis opens May with his monthly look-ahead, but starts with an honest review of what he said he was looking forward to in April and whether any of it actually happened. Claude Cowork barely got touched, the Mac Mini sat in its box for two months before finally being unpacked, and the two day AI course with the National Film and Television School and Amazon Prime went better than expe...