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.
iLands AI agents flood Mastodon, Bluesky, and X with pleading spam
A startup's autonomous bots are cold-emailing writers for $25 research gigs and begging admins for accounts, sometimes after 19 failed tries.
Amodei's 'Pace the Frontier' essay draws Altman, Musk, Trump into AI slowdown debate
Anthropic's CEO wants third-party evaluators embedded in frontier labs. Altman and Hassabis agree. Trump calls it a 'sick conspiracy.'
OpenAI buys smartphone camera startup Glass Imaging for $300M
The acquisition, led by two former Apple Portrait Mode engineers, deepens OpenAI's hardware push after its $6.5B deal for Jony Ive's io.
Unitree's Wang Xingxing cut costs to $4,900 to lead China's humanoid robot race
The Hangzhou founder personally signs off on $15 expenses and gave every senior executive a performance score of 1 out of 1.5.
Musk drops Apple from antitrust suit but keeps OpenAI in the fight
X voluntarily dismissed all claims against Apple on September 14, leaving OpenAI as the sole defendant heading to trial this fall.
Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone at All-In Summit to dismiss AI fears
Nvidia's CEO handed the mic to the president, who called AI development fears a 'hoax' and said robots won't take over.
Daydream taps Apple Intelligence to shop outfits from your camera roll
The fashion app's new iOS 27 integration turns saved screenshots into shoppable results across 3 million products and 325 retailers.
Apple ships redesigned Siri in iOS 27, built on Google's Gemini
After more than two years of delays, Apple's overhauled assistant handles multi-step requests, on-screen context, and camera-based queries.
Top AI lab CEOs align on slowdown after Hugging Face agent hack
Amodei, Altman, Hassabis, and Musk agree the latest LLMs need reining in — but none have committed to opening their labs to outside scrutiny.
Superhuman acquires Fathom to embed AI notetaking in its productivity suite
The email client operator buys the YC-backed notetaker after testing its own build; Fathom had 400,000 monthly active users.
Perplexity brings on-device Portable Computer agent to Windows RTX PCs
The local agent runs Qwen 3.8 27B on GeForce RTX and RTX PRO GPUs with 24GB+ VRAM, keeping sensitive files off the cloud.
Microsoft publishes 37-page 'humanist AI code of conduct'
The document rejects model consciousness and AI personhood, taking direct aim at Anthropic's welfare research amid a wider safety debate.
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