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 Coughlin brothers' consumer app screens texts, voicemails, and live calls after their mother took a spoofed kidnapping call demanding $1,200.
Nvidia's Vera CPU targets agentic AI with 50% IPC gain over Grace
The 88-core Arm chip aims to keep GPUs fed as agents run in loops; Perplexity ran a coding workflow 1.5x faster than x86.
How modern AI is pushing robots from single tasks to general-purpose work
Boston Dynamics and Physical Intelligence say reinforcement learning and foundation models have redrawn what robot autonomy means in 2026.
Elastic CIO says data, governance and humans decide which AI projects survive
Gartner expects 60% of AI projects to be abandoned through 2026 without AI-ready data; Elastic argues four foundations decide the rest.
AI-generated Haaland clips rack up 31M views as fans rewrite celebrity
A deepfake of Norway's striker traced to a Chinese comedian kept spreading anyway — sports fandom now runs on synthetic canon.
Forterra's autonomous Lancer ATVs log 2,500 combat miles in Ukraine
More than 100 US-built self-driving ground vehicles have run 1,100 missions and 52 casualty evacuations over nine months on the front line.
Nvidia and Hugging Face push Isaac GR00T 1.7 into LeRobot for open robotics
The integration connects 3M robotics developers to 16M AI builders, with Cosmos 3 world models coming next to Hugging Face's open library.
SK Hynix plans $28B US listing as AI memory demand fuels 260% stock run
South Korea's memory giant will offer 17.8 million ADRs this week, joining Micron as Wall Street hunts for the next Nvidia.
Sysdig's 'agentic ransomware' case still needed a human operator
JadePuffer's AI agent encrypted 1,300 records and wrote its own ransom note, but a human picked the target and staged the infrastructure.
Apple lets iOS 27 beta testers tune Siri's pace and expressivity
Beta 3 activates voice sliders first previewed at WWDC 26, part of Apple's rebuild of Siri around generative AI.
Vercel's Guillermo Rauch bets on splitting AI models from agents
The infrastructure firm handles 6 million deployments a day and 1 trillion daily AI tokens as it pushes an open-protocol stack against the labs.
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