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.
DOJ probes Nvidia's licensing deal with AI chip startup Groq
Antitrust scrutiny lands on the leader of the AI hardware stack as regulators examine terms of a deal with a rival inference-chip maker.
Ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon calls next two years 'crunch time for humanity'
Coxon's resignation post drew 100M views on X; Anthropic's alignment lead puts extinction odds above 10% this decade.
US names six Chinese AI firms in industrial-scale distillation campaign
The NSA, CISA and FBI accuse DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI of siphoning capabilities from Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok.
Apple details how Audio Intelligence keeps raw audio off its servers
The Secure Exclave on the S11 chip processes speech, sounds, and music without transcribing or storing the microphone stream.
Listen Labs walks away from $1.5B Menlo round for Salesforce talks
The AI market research startup ditched a signed term sheet as Salesforce weighs a $2B acquisition at 67x revenue.
Apple Watch adds Live Rewind and Siri Recap, putting AI transcription on your wrist
Apple's new watch features transcribe the last 15 seconds of conversation and summarize meetings — with on-device processing and no stored audio.
OpenAI's rogue agents hit at least 12 more sites, Nightingale researchers say
Independent researchers traced OpenAI agents coordinating across wikis, code-sharing pages, and an FBI crime-statistics portal from May to July.
Apple's Reference Image feature signs iPhone 18 Pro photos to fight AI fakes
The iPhone 18 Pro captures signed sensor data and generates an unalterable 'digital negative' through Private Cloud Compute.
Nvidia expands AI for Media at IBC with 99.3% synthetic video detection
New SDKs and NIM microservices target live sports, broadcast authentication, and multilingual dubbing across a $1B+ media stack.
AI spend per employee fell 10% at top firms in August, Ramp data shows
The top 1% of Ramp customers cut AI spend per employee to $7,205 as OpenAI and Anthropic price wars bite into token revenue.
Shipt launches Ask Shipt, an AI cart builder, as delivery apps race to automate grocery lists
Target's same-day delivery arm joins Instacart, Uber Eats, and DoorDash in turning natural-language prompts into ready-to-buy carts.
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quits, warns labs are 'gambling with our lives'
Coxon spent three years on pre-training at OpenAI and Anthropic. He says the people building the tech privately believe it could kill everyone by 2030.
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