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.
PayPal pitches AI turnaround with $1.5B in cuts and 4,500 layoffs
CEO Enrique Lores told investors PayPal is 'becoming a technology company again' as the stock sits 80% below its 2021 high.
Google, Microsoft and xAI hand US government pre-release access to frontier models
The Commerce Department's CAISI will run security evaluations on new models from three more labs, expanding a program that began with OpenAI and Anthropic in 2024.
Google DeepMind's London staff vote to unionize over Pentagon and Israel AI deals
98% of CWU members at DeepMind backed the bid; the unions want Google to drop military contracts and reinstate its weapons pledge.
Schmidt office researchers lay out blueprint for AI's role in democracy
Andrew Sorota and Josh Hendler argue personal AI agents are reshaping how citizens form beliefs — and that today's institutions are not ready.
Google DeepMind staff in London vote to unionize over Pentagon and Israel AI deals
98% of CWU members backed the bid, which could cover 1,000 London staff and force a fight over Google's military contracts.
Medical student spends six months reverse-engineering Cortex, the AI tool screening 30% of US residency applications
Chad Markey applied to 82 residency programs and got rejections. Then he learned 1,500 hospitals were using an OpenAI-powered screener called Cortex.
Eric Schmidt's office publishes a blueprint for AI in democracy
Andrew Sorota and Josh Hendler argue personal AI agents are about to mediate citizenship — and US institutions are not ready.
Jensen Huang tells Milken crowd AI is 'creating an enormous number of jobs'
The Nvidia CEO pushed back on doomer rhetoric even as forecasts suggest 15% of US jobs could vanish to AI in the coming years.
Cerebras IPO targets $26.6B valuation with OpenAI holding warrants on 33M shares
The Wafer-Scale Engine 3 maker is pricing 28 million shares at $115 to $125, with banks already fielding $10 billion in orders.
Notepad++ creator disavows AI-coded Mac port using his trademark
Don Ho says Andrey Letov's 'Notepad++ for Mac' — built largely with Claude CLI — used the name and logo without permission.
Image models drive 6.5x more AI app downloads than chatbot upgrades
Appfigures data shows Nano Banana added 22M Gemini installs in 28 days; ChatGPT's 4o image model converted to $70M.
Claude Code and Cowork Lower the Bar for Solo App Builders, Host Says
Anthropic's coding agents can guide non-developers through building React Native apps for iOS and Android, the host argues, as Apple cracks down on spam.
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