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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The new Alexa for Shopping feature sends personalized alerts on product launches, tour dates and book releases — a shift from reactive to anticipatory commerce.
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The AI upscaler carries a 50–60% performance hit and needs 6x frame generation to hit 1080p on midrange cards.
Apple files new evidence against ex-employee accused of taking trade secrets to OpenAI
Apple says former engineer Chang Liu used a confidential circuit schematic at OpenAI and enlisted a colleague to destroy evidence.
Mississippi asks appeals court to reassign judge over AI-assisted ruling
The state says a federal judge's order was riddled with fabricated citations and phantom parties, hallmarks of AI hallucination.
Pentagon launches ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on GenAI.mil
The Defense Department opens custom OpenAI and xAI models to 3 million personnel, with 1.7 million already onboarded to the portal.
Sony cites Anthropic staff chats praising Z-Library in music copyright suit
A new filing surfaces internal messages including 'Zlibrary my beloved' as evidence Anthropic knowingly trained Claude on pirated material.
Blue Voice raises $6M to build a 'Harvey for police officers'
The Boston startup, now used by 225 county agencies across 25 states, gives officers real-time answers on department policy and local law.
Instagram will throttle reach of AI-generated profiles that skip disclosure
Meta renames its 'AI creator' tag to 'AI-generated profile' and will reduce distribution for accounts that don't use it.
Clipto hits $250M valuation as AI video search finds a market
The three-year-old startup raised $15M at a $250M post-money valuation and reached $15M in ARR by early 2026.
Debian votes to allow AI-assisted code in its Linux distribution
The project's new policy neither endorses nor prohibits generative AI, rejecting proposals for an outright ban.
Nvidia invests $3.5B in MediaTek to co-opt the custom AI chip wave
MediaTek gets NVLink Fusion access to design custom silicon for hyperscalers — inside Nvidia's rack-scale stack, not outside it.
Instagram will throttle AI accounts that pose as human
A new 'AI-generated profile' label replaces 'AI creator,' and unlabeled synthetic accounts lose reach in Reels and Explore.
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