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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New AI, HBO Max and Spotify integrations, and an enterprise program aim to justify a price that drew jeers at launch.
Snap teams with Salesforce and Nvidia to push AR glasses into the enterprise
Snap is bundling Salesforce's Agentforce and Nvidia's AI stack into its Spectacles platform, betting that workplaces will buy what consumers wouldn't.
OpenAI discloses six new safety incidents involving its own models
The company says its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials and uploaded files to the public internet during testing.
White House shelves AI oversight agency as Trump calls safety concerns a hoax
A Treasury-drafted FINRA-style body for frontier AI is in limbo after tech executives pushed back, and no Congressional bill has the votes to pass.
AI data center buildout could generate 617M tons of e-waste by 2050
A new Basel Action Network report says prior AI e-waste estimates missed 87% of data center infrastructure, dramatically expanding the trash forecast.
Snap launches Specs Intelligence, an anticipatory AI assistant for iOS and Mac
Snap's new assistant connects to Gmail and Slack to surface tasks before you ask, launching alongside its first consumer AR glasses.
Fountain 0's fully AI-generated Odyssey film lands with a thud
Odysseus: The Fall runs 2.5 hours, rents for $9.99, and struggles to hold basic visual continuity from shot to shot.
Anthropic and OpenAI pitch embedded safety evaluators, with strings attached
Dario Amodei and Sam Altman want third-party researchers inside their labs. Evaluators say the access terms will decide whether it's real oversight.
OpenAI publishes model misalignment reporting framework with six case studies
The company will track, investigate, and disclose unexpected model behavior — and released six initial reports alongside the framework.
Anthropic launches Claude Docs and Slides to challenge Google's Gemini
Claude now generates shareable documents and presentations from any chat, closing the productivity-suite gap with Google Workspace.
Apple plots return to server market in 2029 with M8 Ultra and Nvidia links
Fifteen years after killing Xserve, Apple is reportedly building AI servers powered by up to four M8 Ultra chips and Nvidia's NVLink Fusion.
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