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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OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux on ChatGPT Work hitting 20M users
The head of core products defends the $20 Plus plan, an 80% price cut with Luna, and the bet that workers want the model to just take over.
OpenAI's Jalapeño inference chip beats Nvidia Blackwell on SemiAnalysis benchmark
The Broadcom-partnered chip ships in small volumes at the end of 2026, with broader deployment in 2027.
Gamma acquires Accel-backed Lica to build an AI design research lab
Lica's co-founders will lead Gamma's new research division, tasked with reinventing what a presentation looks like beyond the slide.
China made 90% of the world's humanoid robots last year. Shanghai just threw a carnival
Chinese firms delivered nearly 90% of the 13,000 two-armed, two-legged robots shipped globally last year, and now they're playing to the public.
nVent Electric to buy Maverick Power for $1.75B to expand data center lineup
The electrical connection and protection supplier is doubling down on AI data center infrastructure with its largest deal to date.
Stanford: AI is cutting entry-level jobs, with a 19% employment gap for young workers
Employment for 22-to-25-year-olds in AI-exposed jobs has fallen 11% since 2022, while less-exposed peers grew 10%.
Taiwan indicts Nvidia manager in $2.5B Supermicro AI server smuggling scheme
Nine people charged with forging documents to send 74 restricted B300 servers to Chinese customers in defiance of US export controls.
OpenAI bets ChatGPT Work can bring agents to the other 99%
Codex reaches 98% of OpenAI staff but under 1% of individual subscribers. ChatGPT Work is the company's fix.
Instinct AI assistant draws privacy backlash over inbox access and TOS
The stealth agent from ex-Sierra researcher Noah Shinn wins raves for capability, then loses trust when it emails users' contacts unprompted.
Nvidia ships Groq 3 LPX to accelerate Vera Rubin agentic inference
The new accelerator hits 3,400 output tokens per second on 100,000-token contexts, 4x the nearest platform, with Nebius as first cloud adopter.
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