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)
Get every AI Chat Daily story — including Jaeden's — in your inbox every weekday. Free. Unsubscribe in one click.
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.
Listen & subscribe
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.
Listen & subscribe
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.
Listen & subscribe
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.
Listen & subscribe
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.
Suno's Spark incubator asks artists to sign away rights and stay quiet
The AI music startup wants unsigned artists for grants and mentorship — in exchange for broad licenses, a class-action waiver, and a non-disparagement clause.
Austria lobbies EU to host Anthropic after US export curbs
Vienna pitches itself as a European base for the Claude maker as Washington's access controls reshape where frontier AI can sell.
ChatGPT logs entered as evidence in Palisades fire trial, jury unconvinced
Prosecutors leaned on Jonathan Rinderknecht's chatbot history; the jury split 10-2 for the defense and the judge declared a mistrial.
Google restricts Meta's access to Gemini AI models
The curb signals Google treating Meta as a direct AI rival rather than a customer, per a Financial Times report.
Masayoshi Son questions Musk's orbital data center pitch
SoftBank's CEO says space-based compute won't arrive in time for the AI race that matters — the next few years, not the next decade.
Margaret Atwood tried Claude once, called AI 'garbage in, garbage out'
The Handmaid's Tale author asked Anthropic's chatbot about a Father Brown episode and got a confidently wrong answer.
Apple's Vision Pro chief Paul Meade is leaving for OpenAI's hardware team
Meade, who also led Apple's planned AI smart glasses, joins an OpenAI hardware push already staffed by Jony Ive.
A founder used Claude to challenge his oncologist — and was right
Keragon's Conno Christou fed scans, bloodwork, and wearable data into Claude during a six-month lymphoma fight. The model caught what a PET scan missed.
Apple raises Mac, iPad, and HomePod prices, blames AI memory crunch
Tim Cook calls the hikes unavoidable as AI data centers outbid consumer device makers for RAM — even with Apple posting four straight record quarters.
Sakana and 360 ship Mythos rivals as US ban on Anthropic exports holds
Tokyo's Sakana AI launched Fugu and China's 360 unveiled Tulongfeng within days of each other, two weeks into Washington's block on Anthropic's frontier models.
US clears Anthropic to ship Mythos 5 to about 100 firms and agencies
The Commerce Department lifted a two-week export freeze on Anthropic's frontier models after security risk talks with Dario Amodei's team.
NYT amends OpenAI suit, targets Microsoft's bespoke training supercomputer
The Times reframes its contributory infringement claim after a Supreme Court ruling for Cox, alleging Microsoft built the system to train on its articles.
Frequently asked