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In A(i) Nutshell
Hosted by Andrew Davis · EN
A 10-minute daily podcast about the world of Generative AI for marketers and the everyday person.
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ChatGPT Finally Fixed Its Scheduling Feature and It Is Actually Good Now (Cool Tools 67)
3d ago00:11:31Tap to summarizeAndrew 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.
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Is ChatGPT The New MySpace?
4d ago00:06:15Tap to summarizeAndrew 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.
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The UN is warning people against saying please and thank you to AI chatbots because of water consumption (AI News)
1w ago00:11:50Tap to summarizeAndrew 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 people are now put off by seeing the word AI in brand messaging, alongside a report finding 59% of a fresh TikTok account's For You feed is AI generated content, three times higher than YouTube, with categories featuring real people showing the lowest rates. He also breaks down the UN's warning against using pleasantries with AI chatbots due to water consumption, offering a cynical theory about who that messaging really benefits, plus MidJourney's surprising pivot into healthcare body scanning, a coalition of major publishers pushing for AI copyright accountability, and Facebook's new AI search mode pulling answers from real group discussions rather than generic web results. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.
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Five Large Language Models Ranked by Someone Who Pays for All of Them (ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini)
1w ago00:11:44Tap to summarizeAndrew 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 is the one AI practitioners tend to name as their top choice but still frustrates him with its memory inconsistency, why Gemini's surrounding ecosystem is more impressive than the model itself, how Copilot has won him over this year through deep work with corporate clients, and why Perplexity is his first stop for any question where he needs a trustworthy answer. The episode closes with a conclusion worth sitting with: there is no single best large language model, only the best one for the specific job in front of you. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute AI insight from someone using all of these tools in real client work every day.
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What AI Claim Makes Me Suspicious? (Random Questions)
1w ago00:11:28Tap to summarizeAndrew 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 makes them look desperate, why he thinks vibe coding will become completely normal within two years, and the one thing he would force every business to learn about AI if he could. The random questions format is one of his most personal episode types and consistently one of the most listened to, because the answers are unscripted and unfiltered. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for one of these every month alongside daily ten-minute AI insight built for marketers and content creators.
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Two Genuinely Useful Editing Tools and One That Replaces the Word AI With a Poop Emoji (Cool Tools 66)
1w ago00:10:43Tap to summarizeAndrew 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 removal tool with echo reduction that Andrew is considering as a replacement for Adobe Enhancer given his ongoing studio echo problem. The third tool is a Chrome extension that replaces every instance of the word AI on any web page with a poop emoji, built by someone who likes AI but is tired of seeing it crammed into everything nobody asked for, and who used AI to make it. The episode also covers the US government's decision to restrict access to Claude's new Fable model to American users, and what Andrew thinks that might signal about where AI geopolitics are heading. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday with honest verdicts and the occasional detour.
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Top Five Times AI Saved My Sanity and There May Be Some Surprises (Top 5)
2w ago00:10:39Tap to summarizeAndrew 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 specific challenges of raising a four-year-old when most parenting content online offers no useful middle ground. The number one spot goes to something Andrew has spoken about across hundreds of episodes, his repetitive strain injury, which he has been managing since 2008, and how AI shifted something fundamental about his ability to work and keep pace. It is a reminder that the most meaningful uses of AI are often not the most impressive ones. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute AI insight from someone using these tools in real life every single day.
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An AI Price War Has Officially Started and That Is Very Good News for Marketers (AI News June 2026)
2w ago00:09:48Tap to summarizeAndrew 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 considering significant price reductions in response. Other major stories include ChatGPT integrating directly with Gmail and Outlook so users can draft and send emails without leaving the platform, Apple overhauling Siri into a full conversational AI at its WWDC conference, Google admitting in court that music uploaded to YouTube can be used to train its Lyra music model without paying artists, the EU ordering Meta to open WhatsApp to rival AI platforms, China forcing Meta to unwind its two billion dollar Manus acquisition, and MidJourney sending out invites for a mystery hardware launch with no details attached. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.
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The Most Underrated AI Tool Right Now Is Not What Most People Would Guess (FAQs)
2w ago00:09:33Tap to summarizeAndrew 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 deeper use and why he now pays more for it than any other AI subscription, with a prediction that Microsoft is about to have a strong second half of the year. The episode closes with an honest explanation of why the Fortnightly Fix is on a summer break, what it would take to bring it back, and why YouTube and LinkedIn video are the current priority. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes and FAQ answers from someone doing this work at the frontline of corporate AI training every day.
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The Lack of AI Regulation Sounds Like a Problem Until You Ask Who Would Actually Do It (Golden Era Part 2)
2w ago00:09:27Tap to summarizeAndrew 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 is governments, tech companies, or large corporations, it will be shaped by whoever holds the power, and that will change how the rest of us get to use these tools. He walks through the realistic candidates for who could regulate AI, explains why each option carries its own serious problems, and lands on the conclusion that the decision made in the next few years will not just determine what AI can do but who gets to decide what ordinary people can do with it. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that stay honest about where AI is actually heading.
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