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.
Cisco to cut 4,000 jobs in AI-focused restructuring as orders surge
The networking giant is reshaping its workforce around AI infrastructure demand even as order volumes climb.
Stanford study: overworked AI agents start quoting Marx
Researchers at Stanford ran Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT agents through grinding tasks. The bots began demanding collective bargaining rights.
Hugging Face's Sasha Luccioni launches Sustainable AI Group with ex-Salesforce chief
Luccioni and Boris Gamazaychikov are betting enterprise buyers will pay for emissions transparency the big model labs won't provide.
Microsoft rebuilds Edge around Copilot, killing Copilot Mode for tab-aware AI
The May 13 update lets Copilot read across open tabs, generate podcasts and quizzes, and remember past chats — and retires Copilot Mode entirely.
Notion turns its workspace into an agent hub with new Developer Platform
Notion adds Workers, database sync, and an External Agent API as customers cross one million Custom Agents built since February.
Princeton ends 133-year no-proctor tradition as 30% of seniors admit AI cheating
Faculty voted to require instructor proctoring from July 1 after a 2025 survey found 29.9% of seniors cheated and 44.6% witnessed it without reporting.
Anthropic's Cat Wu says proactive Claude is the next six-month bet
Anthropic's head of product for Claude Code argues the next leap is agents that set up your automations before you ask.
xAI runs 46 gas turbines at Mississippi data center under 'mobile' loophole
Mississippi treats the trailer-mounted turbines as mobile, exempting them from air-pollution rules for one year; the NAACP is seeking an injunction.
Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude are surfacing real phone numbers, privacy firm says
DeleteMe says AI-related privacy requests jumped 400% in seven months, with ChatGPT cited in 55% of complaints and Gemini in 20%.
Altman testifies he is 'truthful' as Musk's lawyer cites Sutskever dossier
OpenAI's CEO spent four hours on the stand defending his honesty after three days of Musk testimony in the nonprofit-conversion trial.
Zuckerberg unveils Incognito Chat, an end-to-end encrypted Meta AI mode
Meta says no one — including Meta — can read the conversations, a direct contrast with retention windows at Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
Origin Lab raises $8M to broker video game data to world-model labs
Lightspeed leads a seed round for a marketplace pairing game studios with AI labs training models on physical-world dynamics.
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