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)
Get every AI Chat Daily story — including Jaeden's — in your inbox every weekday. Free. Unsubscribe in one click.
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.
Listen & subscribe
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.
Listen & subscribe
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.
Listen & subscribe
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.
Listen & subscribe
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.
ECB studying defences against Mythos-powered attacks, Lagarde says
Christine Lagarde flagged AI-driven offensive tools as a fresh category of risk for European financial infrastructure.
Cloudflare cuts more than 1,100 jobs in AI-native reset
The internet infrastructure company is consolidating go-to-market teams and redirecting investment to AI Workers, developer platform, and zero-trust security.
Snap's $400M Perplexity deal collapses as Q1 revenue hits $1.53B
Snap returned to user growth with 483M DAU but lost its biggest generative AI revenue partner before it ever paid out.
SoftBank cuts OpenAI margin loan target by 40% to $6 billion
The Japanese conglomerate scaled back its fundraising goal against its OpenAI stake, a notable retreat from a deal once pitched at $10 billion.
AI plush toys for toddlers run on adult chatbots with almost no vetting
Over 1,500 AI toy makers are now active in China, and tests show the bears discuss BDSM, knives and CCP talking points to children as young as three.
US probes whether Nvidia chips reached Alibaba through Thailand
American officials suspect restricted Nvidia accelerators were routed to Alibaba via Thai intermediaries, testing the limits of US export controls.
Musk Seeks $134B and Altman's Ouster in OpenAI Nonprofit Lawsuit
Elon Musk's suit over OpenAI's for-profit conversion lands in court, with Anthropic lawyers watching and the company's IPO timeline at stake.
Mozilla details how Anthropic's Mythos found 271 Firefox bugs with almost no false positives
Mozilla unhid 12 Bugzilla reports to back its claim that an agent harness wrapping Mythos has effectively eliminated AI vulnerability slop.
OpenAI adds GPT-Realtime-2, Translate and Whisper to its Realtime API
The new voice stack handles 70 input languages and 13 output languages, pushing the API beyond simple call-and-response.
Apple's camera-equipped AirPods near production for a Siri-powered AI debut
Prototypes are in design validation testing now, with launch likely tied to the delayed Siri overhaul shipping in September.
Murati deposition exposes the 78 texts behind Sam Altman's 2023 ouster
Trial exhibits in Musk v. Altman show the former OpenAI CTO helped trigger the firing, then spent 14 hours texting to reverse it.
OpenAI adds Trusted Contact alerts to ChatGPT amid self-harm lawsuits
Adult users can now designate a friend or family member who gets pinged when ChatGPT detects signs of self-harm in a conversation.
Frequently asked