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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Google loses Gemini architects Adler and Pritzel to Anthropic
Two more Gemini researchers join a wave of defections to Anthropic and OpenAI, weeks after Google paid $2.7B to bring Noam Shazeer back.
Engineering hiring proves AI-resilient: 55% of Big Tech hires in 2025
SignalFire's data shows engineering roles fell just 11% from 2019 hiring levels, far less than the 25% drop across all tech functions.
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of 28.8M-query distillation attack on Claude
A letter to the Senate Banking Committee calls it the largest known distillation attack on Anthropic to date.
China and US AI researchers warn against a 'Chernobyl moment'
At a Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence conference, MIT's Stephen Casper and Shanghai Jiao Tong's Lin Yun called for joint safety standards.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna denies AI drafted her NDAA amendment text
The Florida Republican says staff used Claude only for spellcheck on a summary, not the actual text of her 2027 NDAA amendment.
Figma adds code layers, motion, and AI plug-in builder to its canvas
The design platform pulls coding, animation, and Weavy workflows into one collaborative surface as it pushes deeper into AI tooling.
Agility Robotics to go public via SPAC at $2.5B valuation
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Google bakes computer use into Gemini 3.5 Flash as a native tool
DeepMind folds its standalone agent model into Flash, letting developers build agents that drive browsers, mobile apps and desktops via one API call.
OpenAI unveils Jalapeño, its first custom inference chip built with Broadcom
The processor targets inference workloads and was co-developed using OpenAI's own models, with early tests showing better performance-per-watt.
Bright Data's Or Lenchner argues real-time web access is AI's missing layer
97% of AI organizations now depend on live web data infrastructure, and 60% of projects without AI-ready data will be abandoned this year, per Gartner.
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