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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Ex-SpaceX engineers launch 1872, an AI-run robotic factory for steel skids
Backed by $15M in seed funding, 1872 is automating steel fabrication for AI data centers as US welding shortages hit 320,500 by 2029.
Groq raises $350M at $3.5B valuation to pivot from chips to neocloud
The Nvidia-backed round marks a new valuation floor after Nvidia's $20B licensing deal stripped out Groq's founding team.
Amazon is cutting up rare books to feed its AI models
A tracker planted by 404 Media traced a rare book to Amazon's VGT3 facility in Las Vegas, where spines are cut and pages scanned.
Nvidia guarantees $105B financing for OpenAI's Ohio AI data center
SB Energy builds, SoftBank powers, Nvidia backstops the debt — a 20-year lease locks in up to 8 gigawatts of compute for OpenAI.
DiG-bench and Faraday mark AI's slow climb toward recursive self-improvement
New benchmarks show frontier models cracking discovery games and replicating research papers, with Opus 5 and a 27B scientist model leading the way.
Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation, pushes past dictation into meetings
Menlo Ventures leads a Series B less than 10 months after the last round, as Wispr ships a new Canto model to fix quality complaints.
Nvidia backs 4.25 GW Ohio AI factory for OpenAI in $600B compute deal
Jensen Huang commits Nvidia's balance sheet to secure land, power and shell at PORTS-Pike, with OpenAI as the tenant through 2030.
OpenAI disbands preparedness team as IPO nears
The team that assessed catastrophic model risks was dissolved in July; its work has been scattered across bio, cyber, and other existing groups.
Stripe nears $7B+ deal to buy AI gateway startup OpenRouter
The payments giant is paying more than 5x OpenRouter's May valuation to own the routing layer between apps and 400+ AI models.
Anthropic's Dario Amodei calls AI backlash 'a crisis of trust'
Amodei pushes back on investor Gavin Baker's claim that his AI warnings have fueled US opposition to data centers and new regulation.
OpenAI's ChatGPT adds Computer History, tracking clicks and keystrokes on macOS
The opt-in desktop feature builds a timeline of user activity that ChatGPT and Codex can reference, minus the screenshots that sank Windows Recall.
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