Editor in Chief
Byline — AI Chat Daily
Jaeden Schafer
Founder of AI Chat Daily. Host of AI Chat — the #1 daily AI news podcast. CEO of AI Box. 10M+ downloads across his podcast network.
- Host, AI Chat podcast
- Top 10 Apple Podcasts — Business News
- 10M+ network downloads
- CEO, AI Box
- Co-founder, Selfpause (120K+ users)
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About Jaeden
Background & expertise
Jaeden Schafer is the founder and editor in chief of AI Chat Daily, and the host of AI Chat — the daily AI news podcast that broke into the top 10 of Apple’s Business News charts and has been ranked among the most-listened-to AI shows on Spotify. He launched AI Chat in 2022, just weeks after ChatGPT’s public release, betting early that there would be a massive audience for a tight, daily briefing on what was actually shipping in artificial intelligence. That bet turned into a four-show podcast network with more than ten million combined downloads: AI Chat (daily news), AI Applied (tools and analysis with Conor Grennan), AI Hustle (the business of AI, co-hosted with Jamie McCauley), and AI in Faith (technology and Christianity).
Before the podcasts, Jaeden co-founded Selfpause, a self-talk and affirmations app he built with his wife Jillian that has grown to more than 120,000 users. He is also the CEO and co-founder of AI Box, a no-code platform for building AI apps and chatbots without writing code, which raised a $600K pre-seed round and has been featured by Apple as an App of the Day. His work has been covered in outlets including Yahoo Finance, Entrepreneur, and Business Insider, and he publishes a daily AI newsletter, The Prompt, read by operators and founders across the industry.
A Marketing graduate of Brigham Young University–Hawaii, Jaeden is based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also runs the AI Hustle Skool community — a 250-plus-member group of builders, founders, and agency owners who ship AI products together. He’s built his career on a simple editorial rule: no hype cycles, no sponsor-driven takes, just what shipped, what broke, and what it means. That’s the lens he brings to AI Chat Daily every morning.
On the mic
Podcasts Jaeden co-hosts
Daily · 15–20 min
AI Chat
A daily briefing on the biggest AI news — what shipped, what broke, and what it means — in 15 minutes or less, every weekday morning.
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3× weekly · 15–20 min
AI Applied
Tight news breakdowns and hands-on tool analysis for people actually using AI at work — plus an occasional expert interview when the story calls for it.
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3× weekly · 15–20 min
AI Hustle
How operators, founders, and indie hackers are actually making money with AI — monetization playbooks, tool breakdowns, and the business stories behind every big AI headline.
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Weekly · 15–20 min
AI in Faith
A weekly conversation on what artificial intelligence means for Christians, pastors, and people of faith — from Bible study with ChatGPT to the theology of machine conscience.
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Areas of coverage
What Jaeden covers
- Frontier model releases
- AI startups & fundraising
- The business of AI
- Daily AI news analysis
- No-code AI tools
- Creator economy & podcasting
I’d rather cover what actually shipped than what a VC hopes will ship next quarter.
Track record
Career & ventures
2025 — present
Founder & Editor in Chief · AI Chat Daily
Founded the daily AI news site and newsletter tied to the AI Chat podcast.
2023 — present
CEO & Co-founder · AI Box
No-code platform for building AI apps and chatbots. Featured as an Apple App of the Day. Raised $600K pre-seed.
2022 — present
Host & Network Founder · AI Chat Podcast Network
Launched AI Chat, AI Applied, AI Hustle, and AI in Faith — a four-show network with 10M+ combined downloads.
2019 — present
Co-founder · Selfpause
Self-talk and affirmations app built with Jillian Schafer. 120,000+ users.
Education
Brigham Young University–Hawaii
B.A. in Marketing · 2019
Honors & recognition
- Top 10 — Apple Podcasts, Business News (AI Chat)
- Apple App of the Day — AI Box
- Featured in Yahoo Finance, Entrepreneur, and Business Insider
Press & appearances
Featured in
Yahoo Finance
Coverage of AI Box’s no-code platform launch.
Entrepreneur
Interview on building an AI podcast network from zero.
Apple Podcasts
Top 10 — Business News chart with AI Chat.
DeepSeek lines up $7B maiden fundraise, its first outside capital
The Chinese AI lab behind R1 is moving from self-funded curiosity to venture-backed frontier player with a single round larger than most of its rivals' lifetime totals.
Megaport raises $594M after landing four AI infrastructure contracts
The Australian network-as-a-service provider taps equity markets to fund a pivot toward AI workloads after winning four customer deals.
Cyera nears $12B valuation at 80x ARR as data-security spend surges
Evolution Equity Partners is leading a $300M round just five months after Cyera's $9B Series F, lifting total capital raised past $2B.
Nvidia ships NemoClaw blueprint for autonomous industrial AI engineers
Cadence, Siemens, Synopsys and Dassault Systèmes are building agents on the new runtime to cut RTL verification from weeks to hours.
Labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards rejects the AI 'idle class' thesis
Edwards argues US workers won't be permanently displaced by AI — but says the safety net is already broken regardless of whether 7 million jobs vanish.
Mathematicians sign Leiden Declaration warning against AI in research
The International Mathematical Union endorsed the document two weeks after OpenAI claimed an AI disproved an 80-year-old conjecture.
Microsoft unveils Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for local AI development
The mini Surface PC packs 128GB of unified memory and runs 120B-parameter models locally, filling the gap left by Qualcomm's canceled Snapdragon Dev Kit.
Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android-based OS for AI agent devices
Built on Android rather than Windows, Solara targets always-on agent hardware; AccuWeather, Best Buy, CVS, and Target are piloting reference designs.
Martin Scorsese signs on as adviser to AI image startup Black Forest Labs
The director will use the $3.25B-valued startup's tools for storyboarding — a narrow but symbolic crossover for Hollywood and generative AI.
Microsoft open-sources ASSERT, an AI tool that writes its own behavior tests
The framework turns plain-English policies into scored test cases, targeting the gap between generic model evals and application-specific behavior.
Uber caps employee AI spending at $1,500 per tool after burning annual budget in 4 months
The ridesharing company now meters Claude Code and Cursor usage on an internal dashboard after blowing through its AI budget.
Nvidia and Microsoft unify agentic AI stack across Windows, Azure, and on-prem
RTX Spark laptops, a 748GB deskside supercomputer, and GPU-accelerated Fabric land at Microsoft Build alongside Claude on GB300 Blackwell.
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