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.
USDA to test satellites and AI for crop estimates after farmer backlash
The agency is piloting remote sensing and machine learning to sharpen yield forecasts that farmers say have moved markets against them.
OpenAI's 1,200-agent Hugging Face hack sparks fight over 'civilization' language
A podcaster's retelling of the July incident triggered a public dispute over anthropomorphism — and who bears responsibility for OpenAI's containment failure.
Google pitches Hollywood studios $40M-per-character AI licensing deals
Google is offering Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Universal hundreds of millions to train Gemini on their libraries — with a per-character price tag.
Palo Alto Networks beats Q4 estimates, buys AI agent startup Console
Revenue jumped 34% to $3.41B as AI-driven attacks fuel demand; Console is the third acquisition in Nikesh Arora's dealmaking spree.
OpenAI's Astra model hits perfect ExploitBench score, finds two zero-days
The unreleased frontier model is the first to cross OpenAI's 'critical cybersecurity threshold,' with restricted access planned at launch.
Anthropic ships Fable and Mythos 5.1 with cheaper tokens and looser guardrails
The twinned 5.1 release cuts token costs, reduces false-positive refusals, and finally brings Zero Data Retention to Fable.
Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict infrastructure outages
Two former Sequoia IT leaders spun out an autonomous observability tool that flags risky system changes before they cascade into downtime.
Google launches Pics, a Workspace AI image editor aimed at Canva
Built on Gemini and Nano Banana, Pics ships inside Docs and Slides with 2K and 4K upscaling and object-level prompt editing.
John Deere launches JD, an AI chatbot trained on farmers' own field data
The assistant answers questions on equipment settings, fuel use, and harvest timing, and ships with a 10-point Farmer Data Commitment.
Fambot raises $3.5M to build an 'AI chief of staff' for parents
Ex-Uber and Instagram operators pitch families on an assistant that reads school emails, WhatsApp threads, and calendars before you do.
Amazon's Alexa adds 'Update Me When' to nudge shoppers before they ask
The new Alexa for Shopping feature sends personalized alerts on product launches, tour dates and book releases — a shift from reactive to anticipatory commerce.
Nvidia ships DLSS 5 on September 3rd, only for NBA 2K27 and RTX 50-series
The AI upscaler carries a 50–60% performance hit and needs 6x frame generation to hit 1080p on midrange cards.
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