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 neocloud's third GPU-backed loan this year points to a debt-fueled AI infrastructure race now topping $400B globally.
JAMA paper argues autonomous AI will beat doctors on core tasks by 2030
Ezekiel Emanuel and Vinod Khosla say humans in the loop degrade AI performance across five fundamental medical tasks.
Meta patches AI glasses loophole that let users hide recording light
The fix closes a bypass that let wearers cover the LED mid-recording, as EU regulators probe and a US class action advances.
Meta's India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan defects to OpenAI
Devanathan follows Prabhjeet Singh out of Uber and into OpenAI's Asia-Pacific build, as the ChatGPT maker stacks its Singapore and Delhi benches.
Cara scraped for 12M artworks; the scraper now builds a defense tool
Photographer Jingna Zhang's 1.5M-artist platform hit three scrapes in 10 days. The first scraper flipped sides and is co-building Lantern.
Meta tests robots that swap cables and reset servers in its data centers
Watney, Kinova, and ABB robots are running trials in Altoona and Ohio, with one bot targeting up to 80% of a technician's workload.
Judge strikes down Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist as illegal retaliation
A federal judge vacated the Department of Defense's supply-chain risk designation, calling the sanctions across nine agencies baseless and unconstitutional.
Clara Shih left Meta after AI agents beat her best employees
The former Salesforce AI CEO says agents collapsed 10-day, 10-step processes into minutes — and predicts one in five corporate roles is at risk.
OpenAI builds 'Persistent mode' into Codex to keep agents working nonstop
Code changes reviewed this week show Codex agents that 'continue working until put to sleep' and create their own follow-up tasks.
Alpharetta officer ran 103 Flock searches to track ex and rival cop
Patrolman Dustin Bozzo used the ALPR network 56 times on his former partner and 29 on another officer before resigning under investigation.
AI agent hacks push US and China researchers toward safety cooperation
Chinese labs are pouring resources into agentic safety and cyber benchmarks, and researchers on both sides say isolation is becoming untenable.
Trump chip tariffs could delay 20% of US data centers, industry warns
The Computer and Communications Industry Association estimates $90B in annual GDP losses if the tariffs hit chips and downstream products.
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