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 most users are missing entirely, and rounds off with Language Tool, a free AI grammar checker with a Chrome extension that Andrew argues now does more for free than Grammarly does. All three are either free or part of tools people are already paying for, making this a particularly practical episode for marketers watching their AI spend. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for three new tools every Tuesday explained in plain language with honest verdicts.

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 software, and then lose patience when AI delivers something messier than that. The second is a habit carried over from two decades of search engine use, treating large language models like Google by typing short queries, reading the first answer, and moving on. Andrew argues that shifting these two mindsets alone would improve most people's results overnight. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes built around what actually happens when real people use AI at work.

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 system in ways that could poison the quality of information AI models produce. He also covers a MIT and Stanford study finding that AI systems frequently prioritise agreement over accuracy, a behaviour known as sycophancy that makes training your model to push back more important than ever. The episode rounds off with the impact of AI short-form video tools on the editors who built careers clipping long-form content for influencers. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for the AI news that actually matters to marketers, every Friday in ten minutes.