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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Sheldon Mills says the watchdog needs new powers to police ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini as consumers use them for regulated-style financial guidance.
Nvidia's AI Nations push lands wins in France, India and Brazil
France cut document search from two days to two minutes; India's Sarvam covers 22 official languages; Brazil's Widelabs serves 8 million citizens.
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Station F's F/ai accelerator returns as first cohort banks $34M in pre-seed
Xavier Niel's Paris hub is pitching French AI founders on staying home, with a €1M revenue target and a fresh set of corporate backers.
UN chief Guterres warns AI is outpacing oversight, calls for global rules to protect children
The Secretary-General says AI governance is failing to keep pace with deployment and wants binding international rules focused on child safety.
Samsung set to post 18-fold profit jump on AI memory demand
The Korean chipmaker's earnings surge tracks the HBM buildout powering Nvidia, AMD, and every frontier AI training cluster.
Wealthy families pay $75,000 for AI to teach their kindergartners
Alpha School and Forge Prep are charging tens of thousands per year for AI-tutor classrooms, with no published outcome data.
Amazon shuts Mechanical Turk to new customers after 21 years
The crowdsourcing platform that once trained early AI models is now being trained by them — and Amazon has stopped taking new signups.
Google's July 4 Workspace ad puts Gemini in the hands of the Founding Fathers
The commercial imagines Jefferson, Franklin, and Adams drafting the Declaration of Independence inside Google Docs, Meet, and Nano Banana.
Google's July 4 ad imagines the Founders drafting the Declaration in Workspace
The 250th-anniversary spot leans on Docs, Meet, and Gemini — and picked up 'tone deaf' reviews on Bluesky within hours.
Mistral AI eyes $3.5B raise at $23B valuation as revenue hits $400M
The French lab's ARR jumped 20x in a year, and CEO Arthur Mensch is pitching Mistral as sovereign infrastructure, not a European ChatGPT.
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