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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The Justice Department's statement of interest argues a Times win would 'thwart' American AI leadership and misread fair use doctrine.
Pangram CEO warns internet is 'dangerously close' to dead internet theory
Max Spero says AI-generated text now floods job applications, reviews, and insurance claims — and detection is the only trust layer left.
Pangram's Max Spero on why AI detection is harder than 'real or fake'
Fresh off a $9M raise and a Substack deal, the CEO argues the real question isn't whether AI wrote it, but how much.
HiddenLayer raises $100M as AI security spending races toward $2.83B
The Austin startup's ARR grew 10x in a year as enterprises rush to secure agents, models and prompt-injection surfaces.
Reliance Jio opens JioPC cloud service to turn 8-year-old PCs into AI machines
Mukesh Ambani's Jio is selling virtual PCs from ₹1,000 for two months as India's PC replacement cycle stretches to six years.
Adobe acquires Indian marketing AI startup Rilo in team-and-tech deal
The six-person startup, founded in 2025 and valued at $10M, is Adobe's second India acquisition after Rephrase.ai in 2023.
Pangram, the AI detector behind publishing's scandal wave, raises $9M
The 24-person Brooklyn startup has torpedoed book deals and prize wins with percentage scores — and now Substack scans every post.
India's Yotta targets $1.5B IPO in early 2027 as AI data center demand surges
The Hiranandani-backed operator is preparing a January–March 2027 listing to fund capacity expansion for AI workloads.
USDA to test satellites and AI for crop estimates after farmer backlash
The agency is piloting remote sensing and machine learning to sharpen yield forecasts that farmers say have moved markets against them.
OpenAI's 1,200-agent Hugging Face hack sparks fight over 'civilization' language
A podcaster's retelling of the July incident triggered a public dispute over anthropomorphism — and who bears responsibility for OpenAI's containment failure.
Google pitches Hollywood studios $40M-per-character AI licensing deals
Google is offering Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Universal hundreds of millions to train Gemini on their libraries — with a per-character price tag.
Palo Alto Networks beats Q4 estimates, buys AI agent startup Console
Revenue jumped 34% to $3.41B as AI-driven attacks fuel demand; Console is the third acquisition in Nikesh Arora's dealmaking spree.
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