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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Apple Reference Image would embed sensor signatures and capture data at the shutter, letting users prove a photo came from a real iPhone camera.
Anthropic's unreleased model advances the Riemann hypothesis after 31M tokens
Coordinating 60 subagents across a day and a half, the model tested 650 ideas and improved the known bound on a 150-year-old problem.
River AI raises $1.1B two months after launch to rebuild the AI stack
General Catalyst and AMP PBC led the round into xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin's startup, with Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator, and Temasek joining.
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's longtime COO, leaves after eight years
The 2018 hire who built OpenAI's finance, legal, and go-to-market functions is departing to start a new venture, with details to come.
OpenAI's Astra model solves 10 long-open math problems for $2,000 in tokens
The unreleased model cracked problems that had eluded mathematicians for decades — and set off a credit dispute with the researchers whose work it built on.
Researchers build Zoom 'Zoomsday' exploit with fewer than 20 AI prompts
A Security used publicly available AI models to develop a device-hijacking Zoom exploit in a single day; Zoom patched it Tuesday.
Nvidia, Google, and Microsoft push 800 VDC power standard for AI factories
An OCP-backed direct-current architecture aims to unblock rack density as Wood Mackenzie projects $9 trillion in AI infrastructure spend through 2040.
Anthropic will watermark Claude-generated text to comply with EU AI Act
Watermarks apply at the model level, travel through copy-paste, and cover every Claude surface including Code and Cowork.
Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard for agent workloads
The 30B mixture-of-experts model runs 4x faster on output, while the routing library cuts task cost to a third of Opus 4.8.
Nvidia ships Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B open MoE for local agents
The new open-weights model runs 4x faster than class rivals and slots into RTX PCs, DGX Spark, and Jetson for always-on agentic workloads.
Spotify to label AI Persona profiles and cut them from recommendations
Starting mid-September, AI-generated artists get a badge and lose default placement in editorial and algorithmic recommendations.
Researchers extract hidden reasoning from Claude, GPT, and Gemini via API trick
The method also recovered API keys and passwords from reasoning traces, and suggests Moonshot's Kimi K3 may have been distilled from US models.
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