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.
Strava puts its API behind an $11.99 paywall, blaming zero-code AI apps
Developer applications jumped 448% year-to-date as scrapers and AI app builders strained the platform, the company said.
Grammys CEO says AI is now 'omnipresent' in music as 50,000 AI songs hit streaming daily
Recording Academy chief Harvey Mason Jr. says every recent session has involved AI, even as Grammy rules still bar AI music from top honors.
Microsoft to unveil MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model and Copilot super app at Build
Build 2026 lands in San Francisco June 2 with new in-house models, a Windows 11 developer mode, and an RTX Spark push.
DuckDuckGo ships browser extensions to default users into its no-AI search
Traffic to the AI-free search page tripled on May 28, with U.S. iOS installs up 69.9% week-over-week after Google's AI Overviews push.
Windborne's WeatherMesh 6 out-forecasts ECMWF with 400 balloons feeding the model
The Stanford-founded startup says its sixth model is as accurate five days out as a traditional forecast is the day before.
Intel's Crescent Island AI chip ships this year, undercutting Nvidia on cost and cooling
The air-cooled inference GPU uses LPDDR5 memory instead of HBM, betting that cheaper silicon wins the inference market Nvidia hasn't locked down.
US AI economy is growing 2,000% a year, hidden inside GDP statistics
A new paper from Anthropic, UVA, and the Bank of Canada pegs nominal AI GDP at $250B in 2025 — and says conventional measures miss most of it.
OpenAI model disproves Erdős unit distance conjecture after 80 years
An internal OpenAI system produced the first proof resolving a major open conjecture in discrete geometry, drawing praise from Fields Medalist Tim Gowers.
Taiwan's manufacturers fold Nvidia AI into their own fabs as Vera Rubin ramps
TSMC, Foxconn, Wistron, Pegatron and Inventec apply Nvidia software to the lines building 1 million MGX rack components.
Nvidia's FOX blueprint turns factory floors into agent-orchestrated systems
Foxconn, Pegatron, Wistron and Advantech are first to deploy the Factory Operations Blueprint, with Foxconn projecting an 80% cut in root cause analysis time.
Nvidia's AI Cloud ecosystem reaches six continents as Exemplar tier hits six partners
CoreWeave, Firmus, Nebius and others expand AI factory capacity; DSX MaxLPS squeezes 40% more GPUs into the same power budget.
Nvidia unveils RTX Spark, a Windows PC class built for local AI agents
RTX Spark packs 1 petaflop of AI compute and 128GB of unified memory, with shipping set for this fall alongside an OpenShell runtime for Windows.
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