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.
G7 leaders push back on US after Trump blocks Anthropic model exports
Macron and Modi warn that overnight US revocation of AI access threatens both foreign economies and American AI firms themselves.
Pew: 63% of Americans say AI is advancing too quickly
Chatbot usage jumped from 33% to 49% in two years, but only 16% think AI will help society.
Only 16% of Americans see AI as a net positive, Pew finds
Pew's new survey shows 40% expect a negative societal impact, yet 44% of U.S. adults now use ChatGPT — more than double 2023.
Odyssey hits $1.45B valuation as Amazon, AMD bet on world models
The world model startup raised $310M in a Series B led by Natural Capital and will move workloads onto AWS Trainium chips.
Pramaana Labs raises $27M to bolt formal verification onto LLMs
Khosla-led seed funds a startup using the LEAN proof language to make AI reliable enough for tax law, drug discovery, and cybersecurity.
XDOF raises $70M to supply frontier labs with robot training data
The Berkeley-bred startup is selling teleoperation, simulation, and annotation pipelines to 20 customers including frontier AI labs chasing physical AI.
Google Home Speaker launches June 25 at $100 with Gemini built in
Google's first smart speaker in six years swaps Assistant for Gemini, ships with a smaller driver, and bundles six months of Home Premium.
DeepL acquires Mixhalo to push translation into live events
The German translation company buys the $39M-backed real-time audio startup and opens a Bay Area office to chase conferences and concerts.
CPP Investments commits $741M to CtrlS for India AI data center buildout
Canada's largest pension fund takes an 8.2% stake in CtrlS and joins a hyperscale joint venture as India's AI infrastructure race accelerates.
Pinterest launches Ask Pinterest, a standalone AI shopping app
The conversational app taps Pinterest's Taste Graph to test agentic shopping without disrupting the main app — and lands days before Cannes Lions.
Genesis AI unveils Eno, a humanoid robot that ditches the human shape
The French startup backed by Eric Schmidt is targeting factory, lab and logistics deployments by the end of 2026.
DOJ moves to dismiss NAACP Clean Air Act suit over xAI's Memphis turbines
Justice Department says shutting down 57 unpermitted gas turbines powering Grok would threaten Pentagon operations and AI innovation.
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