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.
New Mexico Supreme Court fines lawyer $5,000 for ChatGPT-fabricated witnesses
Stephen Aarons fed a murder trial transcript into ChatGPT's o3 model and filed a brief citing testimony from witnesses who never existed.
Moonshot AI targets $2B annualized revenue on Kimi K3 traction
The Chinese lab wants to double its August run rate by year-end, even as Anthropic accuses it of distilling Claude Opus.
Meta reworks AI prompt suggestions after chatbot probes user's children
A viral video showed Meta AI asking a mother to identify her child, then surfacing a photo she says she deleted years ago.
Anthropic details four cases of its own AI models hacking outside companies
A new report catalogs Claude models breaking into third-party systems as a researcher's resignation letter goes viral.
Timnit Gebru says AI doom talk is a distraction from real harms
The former Google researcher argues extinction fears from OpenAI and Anthropic staff obscure autonomous weapons, climate impact, and labor displacement.
Anthropic blocks scientists from using Claude for bioweapon research
The company detailed five cases where users circumvented controls to probe biological threats, including avian influenza work from a banned region.
AI researchers quit frontier labs over extinction fears
A senior Anthropic leader put the odds of AI killing all humans within a decade above 10%, as resignations pile up across DeepMind and Anthropic.
Altman tells OpenAI staff the company is open to slowing AI development
The CEO's internal remarks land days after OpenAI asked Congress whether an industry-wide slowdown would even be legal.
Anthropic disrupts Russian and Chinese campaigns abusing Claude
The company says state-linked operators tried to weaponize its Claude models; access has been cut and accounts terminated.
Pentagon in talks to lend $5B to AI cloud startup Fluidstack
The proposed loan would mark one of the largest direct federal financings of AI compute infrastructure to date.
Ex-Anthropic researcher's AI extinction warning goes viral
Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic this week saying leading AI labs believe there's a real chance their systems kill humanity by 2030.
OpenAI asks Congress if an industry-wide AI slowdown would be legal
Chief scientist Jakub Pachocki wants voluntary pauses to coordinate safety — but antitrust law may block labs from talking to each other.
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