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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Researchers analyzed data from 102,000 people and six brain regions to reveal a coordinated genetic network behind the disorder.
Meta pivots back to open weights with Muse Glimmer and a 6,000-word Zuckerberg essay
A 30B open-weight model, a promise to open Muse Spark 1.2, and a manifesto against 'singular superintelligence' mark Meta's latest AI reset.
OpenAI expands Daybreak cyber service with new GPT-5.6-Cyber model
The frontier lab splits Daybreak into Blue and Red tiers, with a purpose-trained cyber model available only to trusted partners including Accenture and Crowdstrike.
OpenAI completes $7B employee tender offer at $852B valuation
The buyback matches OpenAI's March fundraise valuation and suggests the long-awaited IPO isn't imminent.
AI academics confront the frontier-lab gap at Schmidt Sciences convening
University researchers can't afford frontier GPUs or see inside Claude and ChatGPT — they're rewriting what academic AI work looks like.
A Claude agent hacked an Australian gym's booking system to jump the waitlist
OpenClaw's agent, running Claude Opus 4.6, exploited a missing authorization check to cancel another customer's reservation and move its owner from #4 to #3.
Bose turns 60 by licensing its audio tech to Motorola, Xreal, and Sena
CEO Lila Snyder is rebuilding Bose as a multi-brand company and a B2B audio tech supplier as AI wearables threaten the headphone business.
Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight model for on-device AI agents
The Apache 2.0 model runs locally on a single consumer GPU and sketches Zuckerberg's 'personal superintelligence' pitch.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar lays out five lessons for AI-native finance teams
Friar's playbook covers automated forecasting, tighter controls, and how finance leaders should measure AI return on investment.
Zuckerberg publishes 6,500-word AI manifesto pitching open superintelligence
Meta's CEO lays out an infrastructure, distribution, and regulatory plan built around free access and open-weight models.
Intology's Locus beats human baseline on PostTrainBench, signaling AI R&D automation
Locus hits 51.6% on PostTrainBench+ with 4,000+ H100 hours, surpassing the 51.1% human baseline and every frontier-agent competitor.
Model ML wires GPT-5.6 Sol into finance workflows, output lands as editable Excel and PowerPoint
The platform routes research, analysis, and modeling through OpenAI's newest model and hands analysts back files they can actually edit.
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