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.
OpenAI weighs legal action against Apple over buried ChatGPT integration
Bloomberg reports OpenAI has hired outside counsel as the June 2024 Siri tie-up falls short of revenue projections.
Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence exits stealth with $650M
The You.com founder and DeepMind's Tim Rocktäschel are betting on open-endedness to crack recursive self-improvement.
Cerebras prices IPO at $5.5B, then stock doubles in first-day trading
Shares opened at $385 against a $185 IPO price, valuing the Nvidia challenger at $56.4B fully diluted.
Anthropic and Gates Foundation commit $200M to deploy Claude in global health and education
The four-year program covers grants, Claude credits, and engineering support across health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility.
Foxconn Q1 profit jumps 19% on AI server demand, beating forecasts
The world's largest contract electronics maker is riding the AI buildout, with Q1 earnings outpacing analyst estimates.
US clears Nvidia H200 chip sales to 10 China firms
The license carve-out marks the first major softening of Biden-era export controls on Nvidia's high-bandwidth AI accelerators bound for China.
Campbell Brown's Forum AI builds expert benchmarks to grade frontier models
The former Meta news chief raised $3M to test how ChatGPT, Gemini and rivals handle geopolitics, hiring and mental health.
SK Hynix nears $1 trillion market value as AI memory demand surges
The Korean memory maker is closing in on a milestone reached only by a handful of companies, powered by HBM orders from AI chipmakers.
Clio hits $500M ARR as Anthropic muscles into legal AI with Claude for Legal
The Canadian law-firm software vendor has more than doubled revenue in a year, but its core model supplier is now also a rival.
TSMC projects global chip market to reach $1.5 trillion by 2030 on AI demand
The world's largest contract chipmaker says AI workloads are the primary engine pushing semiconductor revenue past the trillion-dollar mark this decade.
Jensen Huang's foundation buys $108M of CoreWeave compute, donates it to researchers
The Nvidia CEO's foundation is routing eight-figure GPU capacity from CoreWeave to academic AI researchers rather than commercial customers.
Microsoft scouts startup deals to hedge its OpenAI dependence
Reuters reports Microsoft is in talks with multiple AI startups as it prepares for a future less tied to OpenAI's roadmap.
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