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.
Detector apps proliferate as Meta AI glasses fuel privacy backlash
Hobbyist iOS and Android apps scan Bluetooth signals for Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses as bans spread from DEF CON to public schools.
Greater Manchester holds out as UK weighs $400M Palantir NHS break
The region's homegrown data platform is now central to a debate over whether the UK should terminate Palantir's NHS contract next February.
Micro1 hits $500M run rate as AI training data demand surges
The four-year-old data-labeling startup grew fivefold in eight months, trailing Mercor's $2B and Handshake's $1B in the same market.
ChatGPT gains an Apple Messages plug-in that can draft and send texts
OpenAI's new integration lets ChatGPT sort, edit, and send iMessages on a user's behalf — with a local runtime and a warning about auto-approval.
OpenAI claws back ground on Anthropic among US businesses, Ramp data shows
Anthropic still leads at nearly 44% share to OpenAI's 40%, but the ChatGPT maker is now growing faster in Q3 among Ramp's business customers.
Every builds an AI clone of its editor in chief from 30,000 edits
CEO Dan Shipper says the 30-person AI publisher doubled headcount while automating its own copy desk with a Kate Lee agent.
Google Discover adds an AI chatbot for tuning your feed
A new chatbot interface inside the Google app lets users describe what they want in Discover and remembers those preferences.
Data centers turn to recycled water as Loudoun burns 260M gallons daily
A Liquid Death spoof about cooling servers with urine hides a real shift: recycled water now handles 43% of Loudoun County's data center load.
AI executives misread the public backlash as a messaging problem
More than half of Americans under 30 are more worried than excited about AI, a 24-point swing in five years. The industry's diagnosis keeps missing.
Google adds Preferred Sources button as AI search guts publisher traffic
Readers can now one-click a site as a favorite in Search, Discover, and News — Google's concession to publishers bleeding clicks to AI Overviews.
Meta rolls out Pocket, its vibe-coded games app, to US users
The app builds on Meta's acqui-hire of Gizmo and shuts down the original — part of a stand-alone-app spree Zuckerberg tied to AI-assisted coding.
Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service to rival OpenRouter
The corporate expense platform opens a toll house for AI inference, connecting eight model providers with a $26 launch credit.
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