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 AI inference startup is closing a split-priced round five months after a $300M Series E, riding the inference gold rush.
OpenAI adds spend controls and usage analytics to ChatGPT Enterprise
Admins get finer-grained visibility into who is using ChatGPT Enterprise, how often, and at what cost — a response to budget creep at scale.
AWS opens talks to sell Trainium chips to outside buyers, targeting Nvidia
Amazon's AI chip business is on a $50B run rate. Selling to third parties would put it in direct contact with Nvidia's $326B engine.
FERC clears faster grid hookups for AI data centers, with 60-day study path
New large-load interconnection rules let AI factories fund their own upgrades and qualify for accelerated reviews if they offer flexible load.
Adobe puts AI assistants inside Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and Frame.io
A public beta gives five Creative Cloud apps a bespoke chatbot that runs app-specific tasks from natural-language prompts.
FERC orders grid operators to fast-track AI data center connections
Six major grid operators have 30 days to report spare capacity and 60 days to defend rates as data center demand is set to nearly triple by 2035.
Amazon employees say HR threatened termination over Seattle data center testimony
Three engineers from Amazon Employees for Climate Justice filed a civil rights complaint after backing Seattle's one-year data center moratorium.
General Intuition in talks for $300M round at $2B valuation
The Medal spinout building world models to train AI agents has drawn checks from Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt eight months after its seed.
Anthropic pulls Claude Fable 5 after Trump administration 90-minute ultimatum
A jailbreak warning from Amazon researchers triggered emergency export controls, taking Anthropic's newest public model offline within hours.
Nvidia's GeForce NOW adds cross-store library sync, cuts annual pricing
Ultimate tier drops $70 for 12 months as cloud service ties together Steam, GOG, Ubisoft+, EA app and Xbox libraries.
Nvidia turns Cannes Lions into a pitch for AI-run advertising
Alembic, AWS, Criteo, Higgsfield, KERV.ai and Taboola show off Blackwell-powered adtech stacks built around autonomous agents.
Intel jumps 9% after Trump announces Apple chip design deal
The president said on Truth Social that Apple will design and build chips with Intel in the U.S., extending a run that has lifted Intel 464% in 12 months.
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