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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KPMG pulls AI report after hallucinations name UBS, NHS as users
An October 2025 KPMG report on agentic AI cited UBS, the NHS, Swiss rail, and TfL as customers. They say it isn't true.
Amazon security paper triggered White House ban on Anthropic's Fable
Andy Jassy briefed officials on a cyberattack-prompt vulnerability days before the export control order that pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy flagged Anthropic model risks to Treasury before export ban
Jassy told Scott Bessent that Amazon researchers used Claude Fable 5 to extract cyberattack-relevant info, preceding the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 shutdown.
OpenAI subpoenaed by New York AG in multistate investigation
The probe spans advertising, model sycophancy, consumer data, and treatment of minors — and lands days after OpenAI filed confidentially to IPO.
Tribeca 2026 shows AI filmmaking needs custom models, not vanilla prompts
Google DeepMind and OpenAI brought AI shorts to Tribeca. The standout used custom Veo and Imagen builds trained on hand-painted Pixar concept art.
Apple ships three AI photo editing tools in iOS 27 developer beta
Clean Up, Extend, and Spatial Reframing bring generative editing to the iPhone Photos app, with Synth ID labels attached to flagged images.
Munich court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews
A German ruling says generative search outputs aren't third-party speech — the operator owns the words, and the disclaimer doesn't save it.
Anthropic shuts down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after Commerce Department order
A verbal jailbreak warning from the Commerce Department pulled two flagship Anthropic models offline days after launch.
Meta employees revolt against Zuckerberg's companywide AI hackathon
Workers say layoffs of 8,000 colleagues last month left no time for a three-day AI build-a-thon scheduled for July 14-16.
Meta engineers call new 6,500-person Applied AI unit 'the gulag'
A hijacked livestream, a 1,600-signature petition, and a Zuckerberg apology memo expose deep unrest inside Meta's three-month-old AI draft.
NVIDIA Blackwell runs 20x more agents per megawatt on new AgentPerf benchmark
Artificial Analysis launches the first agentic AI benchmark, and the GB300 NVL72 takes the top spot against Hopper on DeepSeek V4 Pro.
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