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 bolts forum quotes onto AI Overviews to fight hallucinations
AI Overviews will now preview perspectives from Reddit, social posts, and other firsthand sources, with creator handles attached.
Ethos raises $22.75M from a16z to rebuild expert networks with voice AI
The London startup is taking 30%+ per project and adding 35,000 experts a week as AI labs hunt for human knowledge to train on.
Match Group slows hiring to fund company-wide AI tools rollout
CFO Steven Bailey says lower headcount will offset the cost of giving every Tinder-parent employee access to AI tools.
Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5 model and in-house robotic hands after $105M seed
The Khosla- and Eclipse-backed startup is building its own human-shaped hands and a sensor glove to close the embodiment gap in robotics data.
Marc Lore says Wonder's AI will let anyone launch a restaurant in under a minute
Wonder Create generates a full restaurant brand from a prompt and pushes it live across 120 robotic kitchens, scaling to 400 next year.
Peter Sarlin's QuTwo hits $380M valuation on $29M angel round, no VCs
The Finnish AI lab from the ex-Silo AI CEO is betting on quantum-inspired compute and a 5-to-10-year horizon, funded entirely by angels.
Samsung crosses $1T valuation as AI memory demand drives 8x profit surge
Shares jumped more than 10% on Wednesday after talks with Apple over US chip manufacturing surfaced, making Samsung Asia's second trillion-dollar company.
Nvidia opens Spectrum-X's MRC protocol via OCP after OpenAI, Microsoft, Oracle deployments
The Multipath Reliable Connection transport, proven on Blackwell training runs, is now an open spec through the Open Compute Project.
Trump officials revive Biden-era AI safety reviews after Anthropic's Mythos spooks the White House
Google, Microsoft, and xAI agreed Tuesday to give the Commerce Department early access to frontier models — a year after the administration mocked the same idea.
Apple to pay $250M to settle class action over undelivered Siri AI features
iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 buyers can claim up to $95 per device after Apple Intelligence's promised Siri overhaul slipped past launch.
Nvidia opens Spectrum-X's MRC protocol to the industry after OpenAI, Microsoft, Oracle deployments
The Multipath Reliable Connection protocol, co-developed with OpenAI and Microsoft, reroutes failed network paths in microseconds across gigascale GPU fabrics.
Google wires Reddit and forum posts directly into AI Mode and AI Overviews
Google is pulling firsthand quotes from Reddit and web forums into its AI search summaries, branding them 'Expert Advice' and naming the community.
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