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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The opt-in feature returns step-by-step guides with embedded clips, available first to U.S. Premium subscribers aged 18 and over.
NVIDIA's Omniverse stack hits 99% sim-to-real accuracy at ABB Robotics
ABB, JLR, Tulip and Terex post double-digit gains as OpenUSD-based simulation moves from pilot to production floor.
Bloomberg Terminal pivots to AI chat with ASKB beta open to 125,000 users
CTO Shawn Edwards says the natural-language interface will become the primary way traders start work on the Terminal.
Musk v. Altman trial opens in Oakland with 9 jurors, several wary of Elon Musk
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman showed up in the security line. Musk did not. Opening statements begin Tuesday in federal court.
Casey Newton overhauls Platformer's schedule as AI eats link aggregation
Platformer drops its thrice-weekly cadence for original reporting, citing AI-generated briefings encroaching on newsletter work since January 2026.
Anthropic opens Sydney office, hires Snowflake's Theo Hourmouzis to run Australia and New Zealand
Hourmouzis brings 20+ years across Asia Pacific to lead Anthropic's ANZ business as the company expands beyond Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Seoul.
EU moves to force Google to open Android to rival AI assistants
The European Commission wants third-party AI tools to match Gemini's system-level access on Android, with a final decision due July 27.
OpenAI and Microsoft drop exclusivity, clearing path to Amazon Bedrock
Microsoft keeps a 20% revenue share through 2030 and IP license through 2032, but its Azure exclusivity is gone.
Skye raises $3.58M pre-seed to build an AI home screen for the iPhone
Signull Labs closed the round at a $19.5M post-money valuation in September 2025, with a16z and True Ventures backing the unlaunched app.
David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence raises $1.1B at $5.1B to ditch human data
The AlphaZero co-creator left DeepMind to build a reinforcement-learning superlearner; Sequoia and Lightspeed led the round.
AI's underpants gnomes problem: Mercor study finds agents fail most of 480 workplace tasks
A February 2026 Mercor study tested top agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind on real banker, consultant, and lawyer work. They flunked.
OpenAI plans an AI-agent smartphone with MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Luxshare
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says OpenAI is targeting 2028 mass production for a phone that replaces apps with agents.
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