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.
Google AI Overview can't spell 'Google' — or count letters in words
The product that cited The Onion last year now claims there are two Ps in Google and one R in poop.
Snowflake raises FY27 guidance after signing $6B AWS Graviton deal
The cloud-data company cited accelerating enterprise AI adoption as it locked in multi-year AWS chip capacity.
Huawei's HiSilicon claims chip breakthrough to close China's 5-year AI lag
Tingbo He says Tau's Scaling Law will deliver 1.4-nanometer equivalent performance by 2031, three years behind TSMC.
Nvidia commits $150B annually to Taiwan as Trump's AI reshoring push stalls
Huang doubles down on Taiwan as the AI epicenter while Trump's chip tariffs and export controls fail to shift production stateside.
Snowflake signs $6B AWS deal for Graviton chips as AI CPU demand surges
The five-year contract doubles Snowflake's total AWS Marketplace revenue since 2012 and signals CPU chip competition heating up.
ElevenLabs ships Music v2 with mid-track genre switching and section-level editing
The new model can shift from opera to heavy metal within a single track and rebuild song sections via prompts.
Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions globally
The company is rolling out $2.99–$3.99 monthly plans while testing AI and creator tiers under a new Meta One brand.
Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation
The Devin maker's valuation jumped 145% in eight months on $492M annualized revenue run-rate.
YouTube will now automatically label AI-generated videos
The platform's internal systems detect photorealistic AI content and apply labels without creator input.
Robinhood launches credit card and trading for AI agents
The brokerage opens both its Gold card and trading platform to autonomous agents, with 3% cash back.
New York Times Tech Guild accuses management of using AI tools to monitor employee performance
Around 700 unionized engineers say DX and Glean violate contract protections against surveillance.
Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical flagged as 46% AI-written by Pangram detector
Magnifica Humanitas, the Vatican's first encyclical on artificial intelligence, shows AI-writing signatures across multiple sections.
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