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Andrew Miles Davis opens May with a news episode covering one of the most significant shifts he has been predicting for months, Google moving Gemini to a credit based system and what that signals about the end of the unlimited free AI era that has defined the last two years. He also covers Taylor Swift trademarking her voice and specific phrases to legally challenge AI deepfakes, WWE confirming it...

Andrew Miles Davis wraps up April with his monthly tool review, revealing the three AI tools he genuinely used the most outside of his permanently retired entries, with Whisper now the only tool too omnipresent to mention. ChatGPT Images 2.0 earns the top spot after being used not just for testing but in live keynote presentations to hundreds of people in the second half of the month. Google AI St...

Andrew Miles Davis answers three questions from his corporate training sessions, starting with how to structure prompts properly using the seven point prompt recipe he developed, covering goal, outcome, context, situation, role, format, and examples as a framework that goes beyond basic prompt engineering into what is now being called context engineering. He then tackles whether it is worth buildi...

Andrew Miles Davis opens this week's Cool Tools Tuesday with a full verdict on ChatGPT Images 2.0 after a week of heavy testing, calling it his favourite AI tool of the year so far and explaining why it has pulled ahead of Ideogram for stylisation, infographics, editing, and fine detail work. He also covers Try Scotty, a newsletter aggregator that condenses multiple daily subscriptions into a sing...

Andrew Miles Davis returns to his most popular talk format for a fourth instalment of the good, the bad, and the ugly of generative AI, this time covering one topic from each category that he thinks deserves more attention. The good makes a case for AI as a creativity booster rather than a creativity killer, drawing on two years of the AI Live show to argue that the people producing the most impre...

Andrew Miles Davis covers one of the busiest weeks in AI news this year, opening with two robotics breakthroughs including a humanoid robot running a half marathon faster than any human on record and a Sony robot beating a professional table tennis player under official match conditions. He breaks down the image generation battle heating up between ChatGPT Images 2.0, MidJourney 8.1, and Claude De...

Andrew Miles Davis revisits one of his most personal episode formats, the wow moment series, looking back at what has genuinely stopped him in his tracks over the last nine to twelve months. He makes a strong case for AI video as a category-defining shift, pointing to Seedance, Veo, and Kling as the tools now producing work that is winning awards and being commissioned by real production companies...

Andrew Miles Davis shares three prompt techniques built around a simple observation from years of training sessions: most people get poor AI results not because the tools are bad, but because they never challenge them. The first prompt, adding "don't tell me how to do it yet" to any strategic brief, forces the model to pause, ask clarifying questions, and produce answers with more depth. The secon...

Andrew Miles Davis asks whether anyone can genuinely compete with Google when it comes to free AI tools, and uses three this week's Cool Tools Tuesday picks to make the case. He starts with Vibe Casting, an AI podcast generator that impressed him with its research but disappointed on audio quality, before explaining where it does have a genuine use case as a personal learning tool. He then highlig...

Andrew Miles Davis answers 11 randomly generated questions covering his working habits, honest marketing opinions, and the AI outputs that have genuinely stopped him in his tracks over the years. He makes a direct case against the content is king myth, arguing that in a digital world where distribution determines visibility, great content without promotion is just a hobby, and explains why he will...

Andrew Miles Davis covers one of the busiest weeks in AI news so far this year, leading with Anthropic's decision to withhold a newly built model called Mephos after determining it poses too great a security risk to release publicly, alongside the launch of Claude Opus 4.7 with improved document handling and visual processing. He also covers Seedance going live globally outside the US, LinkedIn op...

Andrew Miles Davis returns to one of his most popular recurring formats, the pet peeves episode, sharing three things that are genuinely frustrating him about generative AI right now. He starts with the algorithm trap, explaining why he has become almost afraid to click on anything on social media knowing it will flood his feed for weeks. He then calls out Claude specifically for a pattern he has...

Andrew Miles Davis answers three questions submitted by attendees of his corporate training sessions, including a practical breakdown of how to explain AI tools to someone with no technical background using analogies drawn from whatever the listener already knows well. He gives a candid answer to what genuinely worries him most about the direction AI is heading, pointing not to the technology itse...

Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, starting with PicLumen, a free AI image and video studio that has been his go-to recommendation in training sessions for months and has recently expanded well beyond its origins as the best free access point for the Flux image model. He also breaks down Google Lyria 3.0, the music generator sitting quietly inside Gemini that...

Andrew Miles Davis kicks off a new series drawing on patterns he has observed across thousands of face-to-face training sessions, starting with two of the most common reasons people struggle with AI tools despite genuinely wanting to use them well. The first is an expectation problem, where people go in expecting the accuracy of a database, the creativity of a human, and the consistency of softwar...

Andrew Miles Davis covers this week's AI news with a focus on what it means for marketers, starting with new data showing bot traffic now accounts for over half of incoming visits for some publishers as AI crawlers scrape content to train large language models without permission. He explains the shift from SEO to GEO, generative engine optimisation, and why marketers are already gaming the new sys...

Andrew Miles Davis shares three prompt extensions that consistently produce sharper, more useful answers from any large language model, starting with a technique that forces the AI to identify what you might be getting wrong before it even answers. He also breaks down a comparison framework that goes beyond asking what competitors do, by asking what a third player would do to beat them both, and r...

Andrew Miles Davis runs through the five AI tools he genuinely cannot work without right now, and the list has shifted since he last covered it. MidJourney holds on by a single use case, Fathom earns its place as a non-negotiable for every call, and ChatGPT makes a surprise return to the top three after a spell in the wilderness. Claude slips from number one to number two following a pattern Andre...

Andrew Miles Davis is back after the Easter break with three Cool Tools Tuesday picks, led by Suno 5.5's new voice cloning feature that lets you record your singing voice and use it to generate songs in any style from grime to opera. He also covers Adobe Firefly's free AI image upscaler, which he rates as one of the most reliable free options for restoring and enhancing older or lower quality imag...

Andrew Miles Davis kicks off a new series designed to answer the question that comes up in almost every training session he delivers, which is not how a tool works but what it is actually for. Starting with AI music generators like Suno, Udio, and Producer AI, he breaks down five genuine business use cases including using AI-generated music as a content bed, running creative split tests in paid ad...

Andrew Miles Davis opens April with a look at three things he is genuinely excited about this month, starting with his new Mac Mini which he bought primarily to properly test Claude's Cowork desktop agent feature and explore real use cases he can teach. He reflects honestly on missing his YouTube goals two months running, explains the echo problem in his new studio space, and sets out why this mon...

In this Cool Tools Tuesday episode, Andrew Miles Davis finally features a tool he has been recommending to clients and charities for years but has somehow never covered on the show, Lumen5, a video creation platform that turns blog posts and URLs into polished social videos automatically by matching text highlights to images, footage, and a music bed. He also breaks down Comic Ink, a dedicated AI...

At the end of every month, Andrew breaks down the three AI tools he has actually used the most, and this month marks a notable shift with ChatGPT dropping off the list entirely for the first time as Claude takes over as his primary large language model. He explains why he is still in the honeymoon period with Claude, what he has been testing with the Cowork feature, and why the patience he extends...

Andrew Miles Davis covers this week's biggest AI news stories including the shutdown of Sora, OpenAI's decision to walk away from a reported billion pound Disney deal as it shifts focus towards a unified desktop platform play, and the rapid rise of Seedance 2.0 as the AI video tool quietly filling the gap. He also breaks down the first federal conviction of its kind after a man used AI-generated m...

Andrew Miles Davis returns to his most popular talk format, breaking down the good, the bad, and the ugly of generative AI for marketers, content creators, and everyday professionals in 2026. The good covers what he calls the hesitation problem, explaining how AI removes the blank page and gives people something to react to rather than starting from nothing. The bad focuses on a point most markete...