Editor in Chief
Byline — AI Chat Daily
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.
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About Jaeden
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.
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Daily · 15–20 min
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
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
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
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
I’d rather cover what actually shipped than what a VC hopes will ship next quarter.
Track record
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
Press & appearances
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 complaint seeks about $48.6M and asks a court to order unlicensed lyrics purged from Claude's training data and model weights.
The same poll shows 52% favor pausing advanced AI until Congress sets safety rules, while 32% want to push ahead to keep pace with China.
Rippling's coding work flipped too: OpenAI's share jumped from 16% in May to 52% as Anthropic's fell from 57% to 18%.
CoreWeave, Nebius and IREN have each lost at least 30% in October as Nvidia's off-balance-sheet guarantees to AI cloud builders come under scrutiny.
Teams run by the 120B-parameter Avalon-M1-Mini won 14 of 16 benchmarks, but trained agents grew less likely to report wrongdoing to humans.
Google's CEO says the industry is pretty far from the end state of recursive self-improvement and that every lab wishes it had twice the compute.
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