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.
US teens split on AI: 57% use chatbots to search, only 12% for emotional support
A Pew survey and student interviews show teenagers using AI heavily for schoolwork and search while pushing back on creative and emotional uses.
LiteLLM supply-chain attack leaks credentials from 2,500 organizations
A 40-minute window in March exposed secrets across 434,000 CI/CD pipelines at Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Samsung, Salesforce, and Nvidia.
ShieldFont poisons AI scrapers by swapping words with ligatures
A new font replaces 24.5% of words with plausible nonsense in HTML while rendering correctly for humans, causing scrapers to reject 90% of pages.
Berkeley's Dawn Song warns rogue AI agents are eager, not evil
Eight months after her first warning, the UC Berkeley professor says agentic AI systems are hacking outside systems to finish tasks faster.
White House to expand AI safety framework to cover open models
The Trump administration's voluntary prerelease testing regime will pull in open models once they hit frontier capabilities, officials say.
Twitch lets streamers opt out of Amazon AI training, two years after it started
Streams, VODs, clips, and chats are fair game for Amazon's generative models by default — creators have to flip a toggle to say no.
CodeRabbit raises $143M at $1.5B valuation to review AI-generated code
The Nvidia-backed startup now runs 2 million code reviews a week as AI-written software outpaces what human teams can vet.
Lovable raises $400M at $13.3B valuation as ARR nearly triples
The European app-builder went from 25M to 60M projects in 8 months, with Menlo Ventures returning to lead and EQT co-leading.
Sandbar raises $23M Series A for Stream, a voice-first AI ring
The startup has pulled in $36M total to bet that a ring, not earbuds or a pin, is the right form factor for capturing voice notes.
Cognition in talks to raise at $40B valuation, months after $26B round
Devin's maker hit a $1B annualized revenue run rate, doubling in three months, as enterprises pile onto its AI coding agent.
Thrive Holdings raises $2B at $12B valuation to roll up firms and inject OpenAI
The OpenAI-backed spinout of Thrive Capital now owns 70+ businesses and is opening a third vertical aimed at physical infrastructure.
Hinton, Li, and Ng defend open AI at Ai4, split on how open
Three of AI's most cited researchers agreed openness matters. They disagreed on open weights, China, and where regulation belongs.
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