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.
WhatsApp launches Incognito Chat for Meta AI, shielding prompts from Meta itself
The new mode runs inference inside a Trusted Execution Environment and leans on WhatsApp's Private Processing infrastructure, with 3 billion users in scope.
Rivian ships an in-house AI voice assistant in software update 2026.15
The Rivian Assistant works on Gen1 and Gen2 vehicles, runs in Rivian's private cloud, and is gated to Connect+ subscribers.
Amazon puts Alexa Plus inside Amazon.com as new shopping assistant
Alexa for Shopping replaces Rufus in the search bar, handles price alerts, auto-reorders, and agentic checkout across the web.
Adaption launches AutoScientist, an AI tool that trains models on themselves
Co-founder Sara Hooker says the system doubled win-rates across models; Adaption is offering 30 days free to prove it.
Anthropic overtakes OpenAI on Ramp business spend, 34.4% to 32.3%
Ramp's May 2026 AI Index shows Anthropic leading paid enterprise adoption for the first time across a sample of 50,000+ companies.
Poppy launches proactive AI assistant with $1.25M pre-seed from Kindred Ventures
Ex-Humane engineer Sai Kambampati pitches an ambient AI layer that reads your calendar, email, and messages to suggest what to do next.
Hermes Agent hits 140,000 GitHub stars, runs on NVIDIA RTX and DGX Spark
Nous Research's local-first agent framework is now the most-used agent on OpenRouter, paired with Alibaba's new Qwen 3.6 models.
NVIDIA partners with David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence on RL infrastructure
The London lab, founded by AlphaGo architect David Silver, will codesign reinforcement learning pipelines on Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin.
Data centers push into rural America with jobs math that doesn't add up
Maine's governor vetoed an 18-month data center moratorium citing 150 jobs at a Jay facility; a Texas study found net job creation closer to zero.
Box CEO Aaron Levie argues agents will multiply software users, not replace them
Levie predicts a 90/10 flip toward agents within three years, but says it reflects a 10x increase in workers, not human displacement.
Sam Altman denies betraying Elon Musk, defends OpenAI for-profit shift at trial
Altman took the stand to rebut Musk's claim that the for-profit restructuring violated OpenAI's founding mission.
xAI adds 19 gas turbines at Colossus 2 as NAACP lawsuit proceeds
Internal emails show xAI installed 19 portable turbines in Southaven between late March and early May, bringing the site to 46.
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