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.
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Hark raises $700M Series A at $6B valuation for AI personal assistant
Brett Adcock's secretive consumer AI lab has 70 employees and plans to ship multi-modal models this summer.
Amp and Sortera bet AI-powered sorting on 20% aluminum price spike
Rising aluminum prices and critical mineral status drive recycling startups to scale AI-powered metal recovery.
Google pitches AI agent ecosystem but keeps it paywalled
Information agents, Spark, Halo, and Daily Brief launched at I/O—all behind a $100/month Gemini Ultra subscription.
Meta lays off 8,000 employees to offset AI investments
The cuts amount to 10% of Meta's workforce as the company doubles 2025 capital spending.
AMD commits $10B to Taiwan's AI chip ecosystem as shares double
The investment targets advanced packaging and manufacturing for Helios, AMD's AI server system shipping in H2 2026.
Anthropic expects first profitable quarter with $10.9B in Q2 revenue
The AI startup told investors it will more than double quarterly revenue, though profitability may not last the year.
Nvidia claims Vera CPU opens $200B agentic AI market, sells $20B this year
Jensen Huang positions the new CPU as purpose-built for agents, not traditional cloud cores.
SpaceX commits $2.8B to gas turbines for xAI data centers as IPO filing reveals energy bet
The investment covers turbines through 2029 as xAI faces lawsuits over unpermitted generators at Colossus 2.
xAI burned $6.4B in 2025 as SpaceX IPO filing reveals widening losses
Musk's AI unit lost twice its revenue last year; capex hit a $30.8B annualized run rate in Q1 2026.
OpenAI reasoning model disproves 80-year-old Erdős geometry conjecture
The proof marks the first autonomous AI solution to a prominent open math problem, verified by field experts.
Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute through May 2029
The deal secures 300 megawatts from xAI's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, potentially $40B in total revenue.
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