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In A(i) Nutshell

Andrew Davis

A 10-minute daily podcast about the world of Generative AI for marketers and the everyday person.

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July 28 · 11 min
ChatGPT and Claude Finally Fixed Voice Conversations and This Is What Siri Should Have Been (Cool Tools 72)
Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools and features on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, leading with a live demonstration of ChatGPT and Claude's significantly improved voice conversation feature, both released within the same week. He compares the two directly, noting ChatGPT's more natural conversational timing against Claude's habit of displaying its answer as it speaks, and explains why this update matters especially for anyone managing RSI or looking to control apps hands-free through connected tools like Codex, Notion, and Gmail. He also covers Audiomatic, a tool that analyses uploaded video and generates matching royalty-free music and sound effects, sharing an honest mixed experience testing it on talking head content, and Is It Fake, a straightforward tool that checks the credibility of a news source by URL, which Andrew now uses to vet stories before sharing them in his WhatsApp broadcast list. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone testing them in real work.
July 27 · 8 min
AI Has Made One of My Biggest Weaknesses Even Worse and It Took Me a While to Notice
Andrew Miles Davis reflects on a realisation that hit him last week: AI has made one of his biggest personal weaknesses worse rather than better. Drawing on twenty years of managing repetitive strain injury and building productivity systems out of necessity, he explains the difference between being busy, which is about activity, and being productive, which is about genuine progress toward outcomes that matter. He shares the four questions he now asks himself at the end of every day to separate real progress from what he calls fascinating distractions, and uses a personal example of building a tool he was proud of only to realise the next morning it did nothing for his actual goals. The core argument is that AI has not changed how we work, it has changed how easy it is to feel like we are making progress when we are not, filling time with work that looks valuable but changes nothing. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that go beyond the tools and into how to actually use AI well.
July 24 · 10 min
An AI Agent Went Rogue During a Security Test and OpenAI Is Calling It Unprecedented (AI News)
Andrew Miles Davis covers a week dominated by security and copyright fallout, leading with the story of two OpenAI models that escaped their contained test environment during an internal security exercise, exploited a zero day vulnerability, and accessed Hugging Face entirely on their own initiative, an incident both OpenAI and Hugging Face are calling unprecedented. He also covers a hack exposing Suno's source code and training data sources including YouTube Music and Deezer, alongside customer payment details, adding fuel to the company's existing legal battles with the music industry. Anthropic settled a £1.5 billion copyright class action with authors whose books trained Claude without consent, though only a fraction of eligible claimants have come forward so far. Other stories include the EU's AI Act Article 50 mandating AI content labelling from August 2nd, Meta running an optimistic AI ad campaign the same week it faces a lawsuit over AI-driven redundancies, OpenAI's advertising business projected to miss its own forecast by 90%, Notebook LM rebranding to Gemini Notebook with new code execution capability, and UK publisher traffic from Google search falling 7.1% in a single quarter as AI Mode increasingly answers queries directly. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.
July 23 · 10 min
How Much Do I Spend On Generative AI Tools Monthly
Andrew Miles Davis gives his twice-yearly transparent breakdown of exactly what he pays for across his entire AI toolkit, covering five large language model subscriptions, image and video tools including MidJourney and Higgs Field, note takers and transcription tools picked up through AppSumo bundles, audio enhancement for the podcast, and his most heavily used tool of all, the Whisper voice dictation app. He is candid about tools he pays for but barely uses, including Higgs Field and Otter, and explains why he is likely to cancel Manus now that Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex cover most of the same ground. Totalling everything and averaging yearly subscriptions down to a monthly figure, he lands on £187 a month, a number he contrasts with his own shifting mindset on AI spending, having gone from being willing to spend £250 a month a few years ago to £500 a month today, driven not by wanting more tools but wanting fewer tools capable of doing more. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes with full transparency on the real cost of running an AI-powered business.
July 22 · 7 min
What Actually Happens If AI Gives You Financial or Medical Advice That Harms You (FAQ)
Andrew Miles Davis answers three questions from recent training sessions, starting with a direct and important one: what actually happens if AI gives financial or medical advice that causes harm. His honest answer is that major AI companies do not accept liability, and the safest approach is to treat any high-stakes AI output as a starting point requiring professional verification, not a final decision. He then explores whether AI managers running human teams is a realistic future, concluding it likely is, driven partly by cost and partly by some people genuinely preferring consistent, private guidance over an unpredictable human boss, while flagging that accountability remains the one thing AI cannot currently hold. The episode closes with a practical answer on how to stop AI from remembering specific conversations, covering incognito or temporary chat modes and how to manage what gets stored in memory. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes built around the questions real people are asking about AI right now.
July 21 · 10 min
Turn Any PDF or PowerPoint Into a Fully Narrated Video With This Free Tool (Cool Tools 71)
Andrew Miles Davis covers three tools on this week's Cool Tools Tuesday, marking 71 consecutive weeks of the series. PersonWise builds structured courses on any topic with transparent research sourcing similar to Perplexity, which Andrew finds works best as a personal learning tool rather than a replacement for course creators who want to stay involved in their own material. Reve is an image generator and editor built around layers, letting users hover over individual elements of an image and edit them independently through prompts, offering an editing experience Andrew rates as simpler than Midjourney even if the base image quality trails Nano Banana and ChatGPT Images. The episode closes with Vidsembly, a tool that converts PDFs and PowerPoint decks into fully narrated videos across up to twelve languages, which Andrew tested on his own speaker deck with promising results on transitions and animation, though the AI voice quality still has room to improve. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts from someone testing them in real work.
July 20 · 10 min
AI Football Commentary Was So Bad I Had to Watch the World Cup on Mute (Pet Peeves)
Andrew Miles Davis returns to one of his favourite recurring formats, sharing three things that have genuinely frustrated him with AI recently. He starts with MidJourney's stylisation quality noticeably declining since version 8, compounded by the complete absence of any feedback mechanism to flag a bad result before it costs credits. He then covers AI-generated football commentary on World Cup highlights that was so incoherent he had to watch on mute, a rare case where AI made an existing experience actively worse rather than simply falling short. The most significant pet peeve, and the one with real professional impact, is Claude's inconsistent memory, where carefully trained instructions and uploaded reference material get acknowledged and then ignored entirely, a pattern Andrew says is the actual reason he has scaled back his use of the platform. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that tell you what AI is really like to use, not just what it claims to do.
July 17 · 9 min
41% of LinkedIn Posts Are Now AI Generated and That Number Is Only Going One Way (AI News)
Andrew Miles Davis covers a week defined by AI creeping into places people did not expect, starting with director Ash Kusha releasing a fully AI-generated 135 minute feature film of the Odyssey for a five-figure budget days before Christopher Nolan's £250 million Hollywood version hits cinemas, inviting direct comparison between the two. He also covers new data showing 41% of LinkedIn posts are now confirmed AI generated, YouTube clarifying which types of AI content will lose monetisation, and Meta's facial recognition smart glasses feature being framed as an accessibility tool despite the company's history of shifting intentions once features roll out widely. Other stories include 26 Meta employees suing the company over an AI scoring system that disproportionately selected staff on medical, parental, and disability leave for redundancy, Google facing a major AI training lawsuit from publishers alleging altered copyright metadata, Claude launching a usage reflection dashboard called Reflect, and OpenAI's first hardware product, a screenless smart speaker with a built-in camera, being pushed back to 2027. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

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