In A(i) Nutshell

Hosted by Andrew Davis

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Oct 2026

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

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October 30, 202611 min

Websites Are Locking Out AI Agents and the AI Graveyard Keeps Growing (AI News)

Andrew Miles Davis covers a quiet week of AI releases with some big stories underneath. He starts with the AI graveyard, a running list of AI startups that have failed, including Relay and Character AI, and why a product that is only one feature struggles once ChatGPT or Google adds it for free. He covers O'Reilly research showing employee AI use is moving faster than training and governance, with 39% of people saying they acted on an AI answer that turned out to be wrong and only 24% always checking first. He also covers a report that 59% of marketers say admin has increased in the last three years. Andrew explains Anthropic's new Smart Reports feature for Claude, which lets employers analyse how staff use Claude at work, and his simple rule that if it is a work account, assume work can see it. Then he looks at Bank of America's email asking customers not to share banking passwords with AI assistants, and why responsibility stays with you. He finishes with the growing list of sites, including Yelp, airlines, banks and Amazon, that are blocking AI agents, and what that means for the personal agent race. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

October 29, 20266 min

The Top 3 Tools I Have Used Most In October

Andrew Miles Davis shares the AI tools he used the most in October. He leaves out ChatGPT and Whisper Flow because he uses them every month. First is Claude, which he says has been a better tool than ChatGPT this month for strategic work, Claude Design and building artifacts, although he finds the credit limits really annoying compared with ChatGPT. Second is Meta Muse, a personal agent he has been using to research subjects and clients, with six or seven use cases lined up. He explains why you need to know what you want from a personal agent before you spend credits and time, and that he plans to try Grokbot for a month. Third are two note takers, Fathom and Granola, which he has connected to ChatGPT and Claude to find patterns across 200 to 300 sales and training calls. His plan is a report on what is really happening in the room when it comes to AI at work. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI tools that matter to marketers and content creators, in ten minutes.

October 28, 20266 min

Three Prompt Endings That Make Every AI Answer More Useful (Prompt Hacks)

Andrew Miles Davis shares three prompt endings, the short lines you add at the end of a prompt to get better answers from AI. First is "turn this into a fill-in-the-blank template I can reuse", which turns a one-off answer into a tool, like a meeting follow-up email or a proposal structure. Second is "focus only on" one angle and "ignore everything else", which stops answers wandering, whether you use it on a customer survey or to see an argument from the other person's side. Third is "summarise the core argument in one sentence before giving the details", which tells you straight away whether a long report is worth reading. Andrew also explains why he now thinks the ending of a prompt matters more than the beginning, and how it takes you from white belt to black belt in prompting. You can find his full list of prompt endings at AndrewMilesDavis.com/prompt-endings. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for prompt tips you can use today, in ten minutes.

October 27, 202610 min

Three Tools to Write Better, Ace Job Interviews and Record Your Screen (Cool Tools Tuesday 85)

Andrew Miles Davis shares three cool tools in week 85 of Cool Tools Tuesday. First is Editly, a writing tool that corrects, edits, rewrites and translates your text, with a focus on humanising AI writing. It shows you what it changed and why, gives you a clean version to copy, and even lets you send your text to a human editor. Andrew explains why he still thinks the human side matters in writing and creativity. Second is UseToby, which prepares you for a job interview from a link to the role and your CV. It researches the company, checks recent news and reported interview questions, and gives likely questions with a difficulty rating. Andrew connects it to media training and the idea of having three things you always want to get across. Third is Zight, the screen recorder Andrew has used for around ten years, which has AI features including transcription you can ask questions of. He explains why he prefers it to Loom, and mentions Screen Studio for tutorials. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three cool tools every Tuesday in ten minutes.

October 26, 202611 min

My Top 5 Red Flags That Worry Me Most About Generative AI (Part 1)

Andrew Miles Davis counts down his top five AI red flags from the bad part of his Good, Bad and Ugly talk, the things that affect you or your company rather than society. At number five is hallucinations, and why checking sources and human judgement matter more as the output gets more important. Number four is over-reliance, when AI moves from helping you think to thinking for you, and how it can bring overwhelm. Number three is data privacy, where people paste client information into AI tools because they do not know what they are allowed to share, and why organisations need clear rules on approved tools. Number two is loss of creativity, as AI goes for the average and content starts to look generic, although people with a creative background still have a real head start. Number one is the skill gap, and why the divide between people who use AI well and people who do not gets bigger every month. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for practical AI ideas for marketers and content creators, every day in ten minutes.

October 23, 20269 min

Anthropic Joins the Personal AI Agent Race While Barclays Cuts 5,000 Jobs (AI News)

Andrew Miles Davis covers a Friday news episode led by the next stage of AI, the personal agent. Anthropic has joined X, Meta and OpenAI in launching one, and Andrew explains why he still thinks 2027 is the year agents go mainstream. If large language models give you answers, agents take action. He looks at Meta's Muse, which Mark Zuckerberg thinks could eventually be a bigger business than Facebook, and which already has ten million users. According to Datadome, Muse accounts for a third of all agentic browser traffic. He then asks whether rushing in is wise, as Meta reportedly scaled back plans to replace staff with agents and Microsoft says access and usage do not equal transformation. Barclays is cutting around 5,000 jobs, roughly 5% of its workforce, while increasing its use of AI, with its chief executive calling AI the icing on the cake, not the cake. Andrew also covers AI scams getting harder to spot, why seeing a face or hearing a voice is no longer proof, and the TikTok CEO and Microsoft executives saying the AI hype has gone too far. His take is that we overestimate what AI can do in a month and underestimate it over a year. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.

October 22, 20269 min

AI Might Be The Greatest 80/20 Tool We've Ever Had... But There's A Catch

Andrew Miles Davis combines two productivity ideas from The 4-Hour Work Week with AI. Parkinson's law says work expands to fill the time available. Pareto's law, the 80/20 principle, says roughly 80% of your results come from 20% of what you do. Andrew explains how the two work together, and asks whether AI is the best 80/20 tool we have ever had. His answer is yes and no, because AI is brilliant at finding the 20% but it cannot make you stop at the right point. He shares four ways he uses it. These are strategic planning from a messy brain dump, deciding which 20% of his to-do list matters most each Monday, vibe coding with his 70% rule, and learning something new. Andrew also shares how the 70% rule finally got In AI Nutshell started after fifteen years of thinking about it. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for practical AI ideas for marketers and content creators, every day in ten minutes.

October 21, 20267 min

Can AI Actually Reduce Stress? (FAQs)

Andrew Miles Davis answers three questions from his recent training sessions in this fortnightly FAQ episode. First, can AI reduce stress and burnout? He says it depends, but AI can lift admin and repetitive work. The catch is what happens to the time it saves, because if your employer simply adds more work, stress goes up rather than down. Second, what happens if AI gives financial or medical advice that harms someone? Andrew explains that AI takes zero responsibility for your decisions, so you cannot go back to a chatbot and ask for your money back. Use it as a starting point, compare answers across models if you like, but the final decision and the consequences are yours. Third, will AI steal my job? Andrew says AI will take some jobs, as the internet and social media did, but the people getting the best results already know what good looks like. He shares what he sees on his AI Live Show and why you should double down on your experience while now is the time to do it. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the answers to the questions your team is asking, every other week in ten minutes.

October 20, 20269 min

This Tool Reads Loads Of YouTube Videos So You Do Not Have To Watch To Get The Answer (Cool Tools 84)

Andrew Miles Davis shares three very different cool tools for Cool Tools Tuesday. First is Veridive, a site with a Deep Query feature that searches dozens of YouTube videos on your topic and gives you one answer with citations, much like an AI overview for video. Andrew explains why this matters in a no-click world and what it could mean for YouTube creators. Next is Google's new Foresight, a note taker that runs as an app on your Mac and stores everything on your device. It works offline, turns two or three jotted words into full notes from the live conversation, and connects to your docs, slides and emails. Andrew also covers the ethics of recording calls without telling people. The third tool is Tolixy, a directory of over 190 free in-browser tools across eight categories, including PDF, image, video, audio, text, developer tools, file converters and calculators. Use them as they are, or take them as inspiration to vibe code your own. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three cool tools every Tuesday in ten minutes.

October 19, 202610 min

Why Paying More for AI Now Gets You Less (Pet Peeves)

Andrew Miles Davis is back with another AI pet peeves episode, the monthly look at three things that annoy him about generative AI. First up is ChatGPT's lack of a "last modified" sort for chats, a small change that Claude has made and one that has led him to use Claude more. He explains why searching old chats is so painful when you have 15 different chats on strategic planning. Next is the social media algorithm, where one click on kettlebells or saunas can flood your feed for weeks. Andrew shows how this affects both users and creators trying to reach the right audience. The third peeve is cost. With ChatGPT's new $500 a month plan, he argues the real problem is that what you paid for last year now gets you less, just like Netflix adverts creeping into the standard tier. He predicts a $2,000 a month plan within a year. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI insights that matter to marketers and content creators, in ten minutes.