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 Google DeepMind CEO closed I/O with a philosophical claim about AGI's arrival, months after saying we're 'nowhere near that.'
Ocean raises $28M to fight AI-powered phishing with agentic email defense
The startup's small language model analyzes billions of emails monthly for customers including Kayak and Kingston Technology.
Google's James Manyika says under 10% of occupations face full AI automation
The SVP and labor economist argues task automation far outpaces whole-job displacement — and predictions of 50% job loss are overblown.
Google launches Gmail Live, a voice AI to search your inbox
The Gemini-powered feature answers natural-language questions about emails — flight times, hotel details, appointment info — without typing a search query.
Google launches Pics, an AI design app for Workspace to challenge Canva
Rolling out to Google AI Ultra subscribers this summer, Pics lets users generate and edit visuals via text prompts.
Google AI Studio now builds Android apps from text prompts
The web-based tool collapses weeks of setup into minutes with Gemini-powered coding.
Google connects Street View to Genie 3 world model for interactive street simulation
The integration draws on 20 years of Street View data — 280 billion images across 110 countries — to let users simulate real-world streets with adjustable conditions.
Former OpenAI staffers warn xAI safety record could complicate SpaceX IPO
A new watchdog group says xAI's safety incidents are disproportionate to its market share and should trigger investor disclosures.
Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to lead AI-accelerated pretraining research
The OpenAI co-founder will build a team using Claude to speed up the most compute-intensive phase of model development.
NextEra-Dominion merger creates utility giant to chase 130GW data center pipeline
The $67B deal positions the combined company to more than double generation capacity to 225GW by 2032.
Standard Chartered to cut over 7,000 jobs, lean on AI to replace roles
The London-headquartered bank is the latest global lender to tie a multi-thousand-headcount reduction directly to AI deployment.
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