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.
QueryStory exits stealth with $6M seed to make enterprise AI answers auditable
Ex-Google Chronicle co-founder Shapor Naghibzadeh is betting large companies want confidence scores, not chat boxes, on their data.
Robot brain builders push past their GPT-2 era as Unitree loses half its value
Unitree's $66B IPO cratered nearly 50% while Actuate drew 1,500 builders debating vertical focus, hardware co-design, and the elusive ChatGPT moment for robots.
AI-generated animal images are breaking trust across pet rescue and wildlife photojournalism
Lost-pet scams, fake wildlife rescues, and doubted farm-abuse footage are forcing verification tools and new laws in California and the EU.
IBM ships Granite 4.2 with 3B, 8B, and 30B variants for local deployment
The reasoning-focused release adds agentic RL training on the larger variants and a 128,000-token context window across the family.
Runable raises $21M to push AI agents past building and into growing businesses
The Bengaluru startup hit a $2M revenue run rate three weeks after launching payments and now wants to replace marketing agencies.
AI models still flub these seven puzzles humans can solve
Frontier LLMs jumped from 18% to near-perfect on NYT Connections in months — but mental rotation, ARC-AGI, and river-crossing puzzles still expose the gaps.
Bill Gates says AI has crossed the danger thresholds we said we'd stop at
The 70-year-old philanthropist says bio, cyber, and job-market risks have arrived faster than guardrails, and rates bioterror 50x scarier than natural pandemics.
Ringg raises $10M from Peak XV to push voice AI past the call center
The Bengaluru startup now processes 20M call attempts a month and is chasing complex enterprise workflows over cheap outbound calling.
Generalist hits $3B valuation as 8VC leads $200M robotics extension
The former DeepMind and Boston Dynamics team raised a $200M extension on top of a $400M June round, bringing total funding to $600M.
Humanoid robots break Usain Bolt's 100m record in Beijing — then fall apart
Sprinting robots beat human world records at the World Humanoid Robot Games, but boring chore events exposed how far autonomy still has to go.
Radiologist ranks to grow 26% as AI reshapes the job, not replaces it
Ten years after Geoffrey Hinton predicted radiologists would be obsolete by 2021, three-quarters of the FDA's 1,400 cleared AI medical devices target their field.
Stability AI raises $76M Series B from Universal, Sony, Warner, and EA
The Stable Diffusion maker's cap table now doubles as a content-licensing map, with the labels and EA co-developing tools rather than just licensing outputs.
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