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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Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity cuts staff as OpenAI files for IPO
The eye-scanning World project raised at a $2.5B valuation but is downsizing as revenue lags and regulators push back.
Apple's Siri-in-Camera lets iPhone users split restaurant bills item by item
Point the iPhone at a receipt, tap the items you ordered, and Siri fires off Apple Cash requests to the rest of the table.
Apple waives AI cloud fees for developers under 2M downloads
Foundation Models in Private Cloud Compute go free for indies, and the framework now accepts image input and third-party server models.
Apple gives Siri its own standalone app with chat history and voice mode
The redesigned assistant gets a ChatGPT-style interface across iOS, macOS, and iPadOS, with conversations synced through iCloud.
Apple adds AI Reframe, Extend, and Cleanup to Photos app
WWDC 2026: Apple Intelligence now rewrites perspective, expands edges, and erases distractions inside the stock Photos app.
Apple rebuilds Image Playground with natural-language editing and private cloud compute
The iPhone's overlooked AI image generator gets a WWDC 2026 overhaul aimed at closing the quality gap with rival tools.
Apple pushes AI deeper into iOS with cross-app context and Shortcuts by prompt
WWDC 2026 updates extend Apple Intelligence into Safari, Phone, Messages, Calendar, and Photos — with personal data as the wedge against Google.
Meta strips NameTag face-recognition code from Meta AI app after report
Code for an unreleased face-recognition system vanished from the smart glasses companion app one day after WIRED detailed it.
UK commits $1.47B to AI supercomputer and homegrown chip buyers
Britain will spend $1B on a national AI supercomputer and steer $200M in inference-chip orders to UK startups like Olix and Fractile.
Google rebuilds NotebookLM on Gemini 3.5 with a cloud computer per notebook
Each notebook now runs on Google's Antigravity coding platform and can output PDFs, Excel files, and Nano Banana images.
Amazon lets shoppers design custom merch with AI prompts in Alexa
The Shopping app now turns text prompts into print-on-demand T-shirts, hoodies and tumblers — squeezing Redbubble, Bonfire and Spring on price and reach.
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