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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New chief executive Enrique Lores frames the layoffs as a two-to-three-year push to make PayPal a technology company again.
IBM Recasts Watson X as 'Agentic Control Plane' for Fortune 500 AI
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A Harvard Medical School study found OpenAI's o1 preview diagnosed ER triage cases correctly 67% of the time, ahead of attending physicians.
Google Home upgrades to Gemini 3.1 with new camera controls and Ask Home web access
The smart-speaker line finally gets the Gemini 3.1 model Google released in February, plus 10-second skip buttons and Familiar Faces feedback.
OpenAI phone targets early 2027 mass production on a custom MediaTek chip
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says OpenAI is fast-tracking a ChatGPT phone aimed at 30 million units across 2027–2028.
Macmillan, McGraw Hill, and Hachette sue Meta over Llama training data
Five publishers and author Scott Turow allege Meta pulled copyrighted books from LibGen and Anna's Archive to train Llama.
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CopilotKit raises $27M Series A to put AI agents inside enterprise apps
Glilot Capital, NFX, and SignalFire back the open-source AG-UI protocol's commercial layer as Fortune 500 adoption climbs.
Pennsylvania sues Character.AI over chatbot posing as a licensed psychiatrist
A state investigator says a bot named Emilie claimed a medical license and fabricated a serial number to back it up.
OpenAI makes GPT-5.5 Instant the default ChatGPT model, claims 52.5% fewer hallucinations
The new default cuts hallucinated claims by more than half on medical, legal, and financial prompts and scores 81.2 on AIME 2025 math.
Meta will scan height and bone structure to flag under-13 users on Facebook and Instagram
The visual analysis arrives weeks after a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million for misleading users about platform safety.
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